And turn off the P.L. It makes it sound awful on CW.

I started out on Mode A with a Regency HR-2B with one crystal, keying the thing on CW and it worked great. 15 watts did the trick. Made hundreds of QSO's until I got a better rig.

What got me started (this was in about 1974) was the local folks talking about OSCAR on the 2 meter repeater all the time. SO one day I tried just keying the mike and seeing if I could actually hear my own signal.. Lo and behold... it was there! The rest is history...

I did the same with Oscar 10, using my old Heathkit HW-24, with only 10 watts and a 7 element beam I could actually hear myself coming back on the downlink! The CW signal was awful but I managed to work about 10 stations. So again, a better UHF radio and I was in business!

73, John K6yK

On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:35:34 -0600 James Duffey JamesDuffey@comcast.net writes:

Key the PTT line of your UHF FM transmitter for a CW uplink. Turn the

mic gain down or remove the mike all together.

It will chirp a bit, but it can be copied.