[WriteLog] Using CW via a soundcard

[Bill Turner]

At 06:26 PM 5/21/2005, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote:
>Hi Lin,
>    It is illegal to send "Modulated CW" (MCW) on the HF bands in the USA.
>AFSK is allowed, but not MCW.  Therefore, sending CW through the sound card
>is not available.

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You are correct about modulated CW in the sense of a carrier modulated by 
an audio tone.

However, there would be nothing illegal about sending CW from a sound card, 
provided it was a single tone fed into the mike input of an SSB 
transmitter. The output would be a single RF frequency and would be 
indistinguishable at the receiver end from a "normal" CW transmission.

Whether this is a good idea or not is another matter. 8-)

--
Bill, W6WRT 


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