[TenTec] The QSK of QSK

[Tommy]

YES!!

Because they do just like he says. They can not tell they are transmitting
(calling) while the DX is answering someone else, etc., etc., etc.

Tom - W4BQF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Edwards" <kd2e at comcast.net>
To: "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>; <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] The QSK of QSK


> But someone is a 'LID' if they are dxing without QSK??
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> To: <tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 12:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] The QSK of QSK
>
>
> > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 10:24:34 -0400, Dave Edwards wrote:
> >
> > >Jim... You're biased!! Look at your rig list...
> > >Two Ten Tec amps, Two Ten Tec rigs..and a K2
> > >QSK Heaven!!
> >
> > Biased?  If it's a bias, it's a bias based on experience. Since QSK is a
> > MUST for me, I won't buy a rig that doesn't do acceptable QSK.
> >
> > But more to the point. When I started doing ham radio (in 1955), there
> were
> > no transceivers. We had a transmitter connected to a transmitting
antenna,
> > and those hams who were richer also had a T/R relay to connect it to the
> > receiver. I didn't -- my receiver was hooked to another piece of wire.
In
> those
> > days, a good CW operator wouldn't be caught dead not using QSK!
> >
> > The step up for me was to build an electronic T/R switch so I could use
> the
> > same antenna for receiving, which was a tube whose grid looked at the
> > antenna and drove the receiver. The tube was biased into cutoff by the
> > presence of RF from the transmitter.
> >
> > In those days, when you were sending you heard clicks and various forms
of
> > receiver overload from your own transmitter, and we all grew into ham
> radio
> > learning to deal with that.
> >
> > >I just picked up an FT897D rig last week at HRO.
> > >I gave it a try in QSK mode...
> > >Ain't gonna happen!
> > >That relay clicking away tells me NO QSK!
> > >(same with the 1000D for that matter!)
> >
> > What's the problem with a relay clicking away (as long as it doesn't
> fail)?
> > Does that interfere with your ability to send?  Sounds like something
that
> > most folks can get used to with some practice.  FWIW, I use my FT100D on
> > CW in the car in the QSK mode, and I'm quite happy with it. (I wish it
had
> a
> > better receiver, but I only paid $700 for it). In the car, there is so
> much noise
> > that I've never heard a relay. And when we were at my remote mountaintop
> > retreat last winter setting up our first antenna, we pulled my buddy's
> FT100D
> > out of his car to see how they worked. I worked some nice DX with it,
all
> full
> > QSK. My Omni V is there now.
> >
> > I've always worked with cans (headphones) anyway -- it lets me separate
> > signals from each other and from noise. When you're wearing cans you
> aren't
> > going to hear a T/R relay.
> >
> > Jim Brown K9YC
> >
> >
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