[TenTec] cw creation

[Douglas]

> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:17:50 -1000
> From: Ken Brown <ken.d.brown at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] cw creation
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
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> Sounds like an interesting rig.
> 
>  If the 1 kHz sine wave has some harmonic content
> (it is not perfectly 
> sinusoidal), this rig could generate as many as five
> signals:
> 
> 1) the desired signal 1 kHz above the indicated
> frequency
> 2) the second harmonic of the tone generator would
> still be inside the 
> SSB filter and would be a signal 2 kHz above the
> indicated frequency
> 3) the "carrier" which should be well suppressed,
> but often is not
> 4) the opposite sideband of the desired signal, 1
> kHz below the 
> indicated frequency
> 5) the opposite sideband of the second harmonic of
> the tone generator, 
> 2kHz below the indicated frequency
> 
> 3, 4, and 5 are supposed to be greatly suppressed if
> the rig is aligned 
> properly. Number two depends on the purity of the
> tone generator.
> 
> If it is a phasing type SSB rig that doesn't use a
> sideband selecting 
> filter, there could be more harmonics from the tone
> generator, each 
> another 1 kHz further from the indicated frequency,
> and more on the 
> opposite sideband too. Phasing type SSB rigs do get
> out of alignment and 
> the opposite sideband rejection gets poorer, as well
> as the carrier 
> rejection.
> 
> In many cases I think it would be easier to use
> another BFO crystal and 
> unbalance the balanced mixer. There are fewer things
> to go wrong.
> 
> Yes, using the tone modulated SSB transmitter method
> can be done and has 
> been done. This is not exactly "a great many rigs",
> but there are no 
> doubt more. Do you know of some more?
> 
> >I have an ex-embassy commercial transmitter, the
> Sunair GSE-924 that
> >injects a 1 kHz sine wave while in USB mode to
> produce CW.  This is a
> >pretty impressive rig, no cooling fan 30 w AM, 100
> SSB and 100 CW.  I
> >have an idea that it was not much used in the CW
> mode.  They do warn you
> >that the transmit frequency is 1 kHz above the
> indicated frequency while
> >in the CW mode.
> >
> DE N6KB


The SBE (Sideband Engineers) SBE34 also used a tone
modulator to generate CW.
In their case, the tone modulator was optional and
simply plugged into the microphone jack.

Doug/WA1TUT

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