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ynkedragon

Re: Eagle keying

"Steve Ellington" <[hidden email]> said:
I used the Eagle while there for one cw QSO while at the hamfest. The keying
elay was loud enough to be heard above the crowd which was a deal breaker
or me.

Sorry to hear that T-T has moved away from one of their claim-to-fame features--PIN diode QSK.
I have a 30-year old Argosy which did QSK so silently and so well.

I hear there's a company somewhere in California--Aptos, I think--which still knows how to design radios with silent QSK. :-)

73 de k3yd

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Don Wilhelm-4

Re: Eagle keying

That company is no longer in Aptos (although the PO box is still good)
- the new location is Watsonville.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 9/27/2010 6:49 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
> I hear there's a company somewhere in California--Aptos, I think--which still knows how to design radios with silent QSK. :-)
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Steve Ellington

Re: Eagle keying

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Sir:
To my knowledge, all TenTec rigs that ran 100 watts always used a tiny reed
relay to switch the antenna from xmit to recv. Only their low power rigs
used pin diode switching for this. The little relay was so quiet that you
had to put your ear on the cabinet to hear it however and it caused a lot of
folks to believe none was present.
How about a nice HW-16? No relay!

Steve

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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Eagle keying

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> "Steve Ellington" <[hidden email]> said:
> I used the Eagle while there for one cw QSO while at the hamfest. The
> keying
> elay was loud enough to be heard above the crowd which was a deal breaker
> or me.
>
> Sorry to hear that T-T has moved away from one of their claim-to-fame
> features--PIN diode QSK.
> I have a 30-year old Argosy which did QSK so silently and so well.
>
> I hear there's a company somewhere in California--Aptos, I think--which
> still knows how to design radios with silent QSK. :-)
>
> 73 de k3yd
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Rick Prather-2

Re: Eagle keying

I know my Omni VII had a noticeable amount of relay noise.

It surprised me since after shutting off the Amplifier relay on my Omni V and VI they were completely silent (like my K3).

Rick
K6LE

On 9/27/2010, at 4:23 , Steve Ellington wrote:

> Sir:
> To my knowledge, all TenTec rigs that ran 100 watts always used a tiny reed
> relay to switch the antenna from xmit to recv. Only their low power rigs
> used pin diode switching for this. The little relay was so quiet that you
> had to put your ear on the cabinet to hear it however and it caused a lot of
> folks to believe none was present.
> How about a nice HW-16? No relay!
>
> Steve
>

KW4H

Re: Eagle keying

I own both Elecraft and Ten Tec equipment, and like both companies. My
Omni-VII is a great radio and, to be completely honest, it would take a real
effort on my part to hear any relay noise, and I have excellent hearing.
The K3 is also a great radio and I would be just as happy to have it in the
shack.

73, Steve, KW4H
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Don Ehrlich

Eagle keying_Homebrew KW PIN Diode QSK

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Do you think that company would mind if I confessed to adapting their design
from the K3 QSK to use with my Tokyo Hy-Power HL-1.5KFX amplifier at 1 Kw
level? My junkbox provided almost everything I needed and, just to make
sure my KW qsk adapter matched my other gear it is in a K2 cabinet. I now
have what amounts to a KW K3 transceiver that operates cw without any relay
clickity clacks and I love it.

Don K7FJ

> That company is no longer in Aptos (although the PO box is still good)
> - the new location is Watsonville.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 9/27/2010 6:49 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
>> I hear there's a company somewhere in California--Aptos, I think--which
>> still knows how to design radios with silent QSK. :-)
>>
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