[UK-CONTEST] CW in V/UHF contests & the Liner-2

[Bob Henderson]

The Liner 2 quickly became better known as the Liner Spew.  Coincidence?  I
think not!

Ask anyone whose near neighbour delighted in the use of one of these
monstrosities.

Bob, 5B4AGN

On 29 May 2011 09:24, Rob Harrison <robharrison at g8hgn.freeserve.co.uk>wrote:

> Tim,
>
> Not if you were on the receiving end of it it wasn't. The last thing you
> wanted was one with a linear behind it. Yes dreadful.
>
> 73
>
> Bob G8HGN
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim Hugill" <tim04 at swandhams.com>
> To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 10:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CW in V/UHF contests & the Liner-2
>
>
>
> Don,
>
> Dreadful ? The Liner 2 was a brilliant rig, and for only £120 + 10%VAT.
>
> Then someone changed the bandplan, moved the SSB calling frequency from
> 145.41 to 144.30, and we all rushed out and bought crystals to move the
> channels down the band.
>
> Nothing horrible in using the tune button for CW either - some surgery was
> required to insert a decent Rx front-end in the RF chain too.
> Had many successful CW MS QSOs with that and a '6-40A.
> Got to admit the microphone was rubbish though - changed mine for one from
> my Pye Cambridge.
> (Stop it !)
> 73
> Tim  G4FJK
>
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> Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 11:14:03 +0000
> From: Don Field <don.field at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CW in V/UHF contests
> To: UK Contest <uk-contest at contesting.com>
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> I believe the generally accepted benefit of CW over SSB is around 13dB, but
> that assumes optimum filtering at the receive end - many VHF operators have
> not invested in CW filters, so the benefit would be less.
>
> But the discussion does remind me of one anecdote, doing VHF NFD with the
> Northampton Club in the early 70's, using my Liner 2 on 2m (some of you
> will
> recall that dreadful radio!). The band suddenly opened to Scandinavia and
> there were plenty of SM1, SM4, etc. stations calling CQ, all worth large
> numbers of points. But (almost) all on CW. What to do? I happened to have a
> straight key with me, for the 4m station, and we wired it across the "tune"
> button on the Liner 2, and I proceeded to work DX on CW. Horrible, but
> increased our score significantly!
>
> Don G3XTT
>
>
>
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