[TenTec] Whats a good way to monitor your cw signal?

[DAVID HELLER]

In the good old days of separate rx + tx I used a Drake 2b + Viking II for 
CW (the vast majority of my operating).  The 2b was connected to the antenna 
through a VT T/R switch.  It played back what my TX was doing with 
negligibledistortion or overload - a perfect monitor far superior to the 
artificial sidetone of any transceiver.  Tried many, many transceivers for 
the single-knob convenience;  found all so far inferior to the 2b +_ as to 
be worthless -- until I tried Ten-Tec in the form of a beat-up Triton 544. 
Surprize!  But the 2b with simple input attenuation is still an excellent 
monitor, though there are probably plenty of upper-end receivers that will 
work well.  A low-end receiver probably will lack the dynamic range to be of 
value in the high intensivity field of a normal shack.  An added virtue of 
the separate receiver is the ease of precise zero beating of a received 
signal.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "george fritkin" <georgefritkin at yahoo.com>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Whats a good way to monitor your cw signal?


> Duane:
>
> Get your volt meter out and measure the DC out of the supply.  Make sure 
> the supply is regulating.
>
> George, W6GF
>
> PS: Using an inexpensive radio is not a good idea.  Their  BFO's can be 
> "pulled" on strong signals, giving erroneous signals.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: JAMES HANLON <knjhanlon at msn.com>
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
> Cc: dw at sover.net
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 8:09:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Whats a good way to monitor your cw signal?
>
>
> Duane,
>
> I am "blessed" with many old, "boatanchor" receivers, and I just use one 
> of them with the antenna terminals shorted and the RF gain turned down to 
> listen to myself.  Perhaps you could find something inexpensive and a bit 
> better than the S-38 level at a local hamfest or on the web that would do 
> the trick.
>
> Jim, W8KGI
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: dw<mailto:bw_dw at fastmail.fm>
>  To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment<mailto:tentec at contesting.com>
>  Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 7:55 PM
>  Subject: [TenTec] Whats a good way to monitor your cw signal?
>
>
>  My 25 amp power supply did a hick-up last week-end and since then I've
>  received
>  2 warble reports on 30.
>  No bad reports on other bands though.
>
>  I have a small hand-held icom RC-10 which has cw mode, and I listened to
>  myself on all bands with it the other day, but I'm not sure if I can
>  hear the warble or not.
>
>  Running the Jupiter.
>
>  On one report, I pulled the power down to 75% and was told it was still
>  there.
>
>  Your suggestions highly appreciated.
>
>  Tnx
>  Duane
>  N1BBR
>  -- 
>    dw
>    dw at sover.net<mailto:dw at sover.net>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec
>
>
>
> ____________________________________________________________________________________
> Now that's room service!  Choose from over 150,000 hotels
> in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit.
> http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097
> _______________________________________________
> TenTec mailing list
> TenTec at contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/tentec