Ah, good! I remember my second rig with a built-in VFO, the Ten Tec
PM3A (picked up at a swap meet, the fellow thought it was a cute little
"monitor" receiver without much value, but he did charge $45 that I
happened to have handy.)
Same deal as Doc discussed. Wide as a barn. Listen to both sidebands
at once! I had nice high impedance military headphones and could hear
the whole band, I swear! I got good at picking out the signal I wanted
to hear, sometimes by the intermittent beat note from offending QRM.
Something I would probably not want to put up with today!
I do remember when Ten Tec offered the passive audio CW filter to go in
line with the headphones (a couple of big inductors inside!) I didn't
like the thing and gave it away (wish I had it today, I've seen very
few in existence, cool little accessory for the PM series.)
Clark
WA3JPG
On Jun 17, 2007, at 6:01 PM, W.D. (Doc) Lindsey wrote:
> Good Evening:
>
> I always thought I was greatly blessed to start out as a rock bound
> Novice
> in late 1960 [g]. Especially since I had a super-wide BW receiver
> called a
> Hallicrafters S-38D. Seemed like I could hear the entire Novice CW
> band
> without even having to fine-tune. I was forced to learn to pick out
> whoever might be calling me. Actually, turned out that stations *had*
> been
> replying for a couple of days before I could finally recognise *my own
> call* [c]. Eventually my frustrated elmer actually drove over to my
> house
> to point this out! From then on things began to improve....but
> verrrrrryyy
> slowly.
>
> But the net result of those early trials of 47 years ago is that now I
> really CAN copy CW in my head easily, and usually much better without
> filtres bands are crowded or there is lots of QSB/QRN. I actually
> don't
> even particularly want a really complicated rig, preferring the
> simplest
> (the "ZEN?") CW rigs I can find. Others of course will differ
> completely,
> and that's their schtick.
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