Tony CW transceiver for socially isolated kids

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I have seen advertisements for FRS walkie talkies with Morse code. It may be done using the PTT   button, but I'm pretty sure there is a tone.  Price was about 12.95 per pair.  Just a thought.

73 De W3UEC (Steve Dubin)
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I wonder if kids today are going to be impressed with a commercial radio
that lets them talk 100' away. Most of them are packing a cellphone with
more power than even NASA envisioned when many of us were that age. 
Radio was magic to us. Being able to talk to people in Russia was
unbelievable. These kids communicate worldwide almost every day. I think
they might be impressed with the simplicity of a more homebrew looking
(guts exposed) minimalist rig with an equally simple coded "language".

Eric KE6US


On 10/18/2019 2:08 PM, Dr Stephen E Dubin via Elecraft wrote:

> I have seen advertisements for FRS walkie talkies with Morse code. It may be done using the PTT   button, but I'm pretty sure there is a tone.  Price was about 12.95 per pair.  Just a thought.
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Eric
I've watched kids use Morse practice oscillators of the simplest kind (we made a kit for <£3 including the key) and they are absolutely taken by it.  I don't think they compare their cell phones with this system at all. We do because we are aware of the technology, but kids see things differently.
David G3UNA

> On 18 October 2019 at 22:37 EricJ <[hidden email]> wrote:
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>
> I wonder if kids today are going to be impressed with a commercial radio
> that lets them talk 100' away. Most of them are packing a cellphone with
> more power than even NASA envisioned when many of us were that age. 
> Radio was magic to us. Being able to talk to people in Russia was
> unbelievable. These kids communicate worldwide almost every day. I think
> they might be impressed with the simplicity of a more homebrew looking
> (guts exposed) minimalist rig with an equally simple coded "language".
>
> Eric KE6US
>

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[K8TE]

While getting somethings on my shopping list at Wired Communications
yesterday, I found a $5.00 40m transmitter kit.  It is a through-hole kit
with a pair of transistors and a crystal on 7023.  The card on the box
indicated it runs 150 mW, reminding me of a similar transmitter I built with
two transistors for 80m.  This kit with similarly inexpensive receiver could
fill the bill as Wayne describes it.

Yes, kids, with the right Elmers, get a kick out of this kind of thing.  No,
I'm not writing about my experiences in the 1960's, but those with Scouts
and other kids in the last ten years.  I watched Eric spend a lot of time
yesterday demonstrating the K4 to what looked to me to be a 13-year-old who
is already licensed, probably thanks to his dad who also has a ticket.

The typical grumpy old ham who operates 75m each morning and evening (let
the flames begin) is not the one who will spark enthusiasm in anyone, but
especially kids, for ham radio.  Heck!  They're the same ones who ignore
visitors to their own club meetings.

We need ideas like Wayne's, but more importantly, enthusiastic, active,
engaged hams who are willing to share their time and love of our avocation
with others.  Most new hams today are middle-aged and come to us via EMCOMM.
We need to share the mystery and excitement of HF with them and not belittle
them for purchasing their cheap HT’s but help program them and invite them
to visit our shacks to work some DX and enter a QSO party.

Time for a shower and maybe breakfast before the day begins at Pacificon.
It looked busy yesterday and will likely be busier today.  Monday, we'll
stop by Watsonville to deliver a damaged KPA500 and K3 from my RV trip to
and from Dayton earlier this year.  Then, I'll get ready for next weekend's
CQ WW DX SSB Contest with a friend in Gallup NM.

Get active.  Get engaged.  Get on-the-air!  73, Bill, K8TE




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