Boy, that sounds familiar ! My first Oscar station was a Regency HR-2B FM rig with ONE crystal in the middle of the uplink band on 2 meters, keying the high-low power switch. You couldn't hear the low power but the 15 watts on high power made it fine.
And the receivers were an HW-101 and Hallicrafters SX-117. Bought an AMECO preamp for HF, which helped out on 10 meters.
That was good enough to work lots of stations, maybe a total of 600 QSO's on OScar 6 and 7!
Then when the RS-10, 11 came along, I tried some mobile work using an ICOM 230, again only one frequency, keying the PTT line, no chirp, and Yaesu FT-301 for receiver. Larson 2 meter antenna and Hustler 10 meter antenna on the pickup. Worked quite a few QSO's that way, too!
All CW only, of course on mode A. Didn't get an all-mode rig until about 1986 during the "RS" era.
73, John
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:59:28 -0600 Joe nss@mwt.net writes:
My first Oscar Station,,,
I do not remember if it was Oscar 6 or 7, but it was 1975, and we listened to many passes on the ten meter downlink.
We got from a local ham, an old AM vfo controlled 2 meter rig. It was AM only. it had a Red face and was BIG like the size of a heathkit SB-200 amp. two VFO's one for transmit and a separate one for receive.
anyway we connected out Hallicrafters TO Keyer to the PTT line of the mic, (with no mic installed) and it worked amazingly well. That was out Oscar station back then, we made like 25 states or so on that setup,
Joe WB9SBD
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On 2/4/2011 9:16 AM, Roger Kolakowski wrote:
Simple answer...FM rigs will tend to "chirp" as you key the mic
line as
the VCO pulls onto frequency...crystal matrix FM radios such as
the old
Standard will be T-9...
The purists will cry about the chirpy signal...but, most people
who work
CW on satellites would relish a new operator/contact even if they
were QLF.
That being said...I have works scores of stations with my own
"chirpy"
signal and even have received some polite 599's back.
Roger Kolakowski WA1KAT
On 2/4/2011 9:30 AM, Rich Dailey wrote:
Let's not forget about the funcube dongle as a terrific
economical
solution for receiving. And any decent FM transmitter can key
CW,
no? Assuming someone already has a vhf/uhf rig, I can see getting
qrv on linear
transponders today for under $200. Or am I being too simplistic?
Rich, N8UX
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