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Vintage Amateur and Military Radio Amateur/military receivers and transmitters, morse, and any other related vintage comms equipment. |
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9th Apr 2017, 9:11 am | #21 | |
Heptode
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Ashhurst, Manawatu, New Zealand
Posts: 570
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Re: Side tone ...when did it start for cw?
What G3VKM said...
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My favourite key is a refurbished Amplidan which I bought at a fair for NZ$10. I also bought a Marconi Type "D" on an auction site for NZ$40 but after strip/clean/rebuild I don't really like the "click/thud" sound, it's improved with a large washer under the contact but I'm still not happy. A Don5 is a nice little key, I put it with my Type "A" mk 3 spy set - not the authentic key but it looks the part!
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9th Apr 2017, 9:03 pm | #22 |
Dekatron
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK.
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Re: Side tone ...when did it start for cw?
On our journey back from the Blackpool radio rally today, we made a diversion up through the Lake District and ended up at Wray Castle (NT) which is on the western shore of Windermere and has only recently been opened up to the public despite having been in the ownership of the National Trust since the 1920s.
The building has had various uses but most interestingly a spell as a Merchant Navy (technical?) training college from the 1960s to the 1990s. The doors to the various main rooms still have brass plaques from that time bearing names like 'Volta', 'Rutherford', 'Rayleigh' and 'Morse'. It made me wonder if any of you gentlemen had ever passed through its doors? |