[TenTec] WIDER FILTER FOR WEAK CW DXING?

[Clark Savage Turner]

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.