Subj : Introduction ...
To   : Ed Vance
From : AKAcastor
Date : Thu Mar 14 2024 11:37:12

Hi Ed!  It's taken me a while to reply, I enjoy your messages and wanted to take the time to write a proper reply.

 EV> Between the time I was Discharged from the Navy and seeing the Netronics
 EV> advertisement another Ham I visited was using a CW 
 EV> Sending/Receiving keyboard
 EV> terminal hooked up to his Gear and reading incoming 
 EV> code and what he typed on a TV set.
 EV> Boy! did I drool over his set-up.

Sounds like a great setup for the time.  Was there any longer-term storage involved, or (I assume) it was just for realtime use, showing the data live?

The CW Sending/Receving keyboard is translating between letters and morse code for the user, correct?  So you press 'S' and it outputs ... ?

 EV> Note: I use Megacycles instead of Hertz because as a child one day I  EV> took the headphone off of my older brothers Crystal Radio Set, 
 EV> and then sat on the floor by an A.C. RECEPTACLE and put those two metal  EV> terminals into the slots so I could hear what Electricity sounded like  EV> (after all my brother could hear AM Radio Stations over that headphone  EV> with a long antenna wire Dad hung up alongside the house).
 EV> With one hand I held that single headphone to a ear and with the other  EV> hand I pushed the terminals in .
 EV>
 EV> I heard a loud BUZZ and the shock moved me back a few inches.

Fantastic story, and if I ever observe erratic behaviour from you then I will assume this to be the root cause.  ;)

Given that it is a RECEPTACLE it does seem reasonable to try to receive through it...  That had to be a hell of a 60hz boom. :)


Chris/akacastor

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