[TenTec] The QSK of QSK

[Bill Rowlett]

No, the problem is not that they do not use VOX, it is that in the pileup 
they call more than once. If everybody did as they are suppose to do, which 
is to give their cpmplete call once, DXi'ing would be a lot more fum, CW or 
SSB.

Just my two cents.

73,  Bill  kc4atu


>From: "Tommy" <aldermant at alltel.net>
>Reply-To: tentec at contesting.com
>To: <tentec at contesting.com>
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] The QSK of QSK
>Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:59:49 -0400
>
>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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