I believe the term CW was originally coined to reflect the fact that you had a
continuous sine wave transmission when the key was down, whereas with the
previous technology (spark) you had a transmitted signal which was more-or-less
narrowband white noise.
And it does anyone remember some low-power HF experiments with a transmitter
whose frequency was stabilised by putting the crystal oscillator in the
operator's armpit?
73
John F5VLF/G3PAI
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On 23/05/2007 at 02:18 J. B. Weazle McCreath wrote:
>LFers,
>
>I've always thought that the term CW was a misnomer, since it
>isn't continuous in the strickest sense, being keyed on and off
>in some specific pattern. Perhaps the CW setting of the mode
>switch on rigs should be changed to PD, for primitive digital.
>
>73, J.B., VE3EAR - VE3WZL
>Solar and wind powered
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>EN93dr
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>http://www.hurontel.on.ca/~weazle
>
>P.S. - I am aware of how CW got its name.
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