[LARC-CQ] CW on 2 meters?

[J Leahy]

Hi All,

I am currently in Maine and will remain away from my Zhills QTH until September but yes, I still show up on 10m (28.030) for local CW practice on Thursdays @ 2000 hrs but usually just push out CQ to the ether.

The ZAARC website has a MCW project for FM HT’s if any one should be interested in building one or make it a club project.  I have quite a few 555 timers at home that I can part with and probably most of the other components too.  An MFJ key sells for $15 and making one costs next to nothing and is fun to build too !

It would be a fun thing to have a MCW Net and get some interest going for CW, just because !  

Perfect CW no, but fun for many.

Here’s the link: https://www.zaarc.org/CW%20With%20Your%20HT.pdf

Keep me in the loop, be happy to be a part.

John
KK4ITX 

Visit:  www.zaarc.org.   👁

> On Aug 6, 2021, at 16:29, Harmon Morgan via CQ <cq at lists.lakelandarc.org> wrote:
> 
> MCW or Modulated CW was around back when I was first licensed. Back in ye olden days, people would  take an AM transmitter and modulate it with a Code Practice Oscillator. Used to hear it on 6M. Think I even heard it on 40M, one time. Real CW is used on the low end of the various VHF and UHF bands. It is used to make contacts, when SSB just won’t quite make it. 
> Yes, an FT 847 will do what you want. I assume your 2M antenna is vertical and resonant on the high end of the band. Finding a frequency, above 144.3 MHz,  to operate CW, that will not irritate people, may be difficult. 
> 
> Buddy WB4OMG
> 
>> On Aug 6, 2021, at 10:31 AM, William Paul via CQ <cq at lists.lakelandarc.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for the quick response Buddy. 
>> I’m thinking real CW on simplex. 
>> I have an old FT-847 which I believe has the potential. That way we could get some noise and fade to practice with. 
>> Please refresh my old memory cells,  what is MCW?  Maybe I could make that work. (If I knew what it was.)
>> 
>> My EFLW blew down before December last year so with that and another round of surgery I‘ve been pretty much off HF. 
>> 
>> I paid 99 cents for a KOCH trainer app which I love. I’m copying 15wpm “reflex” and making good progress. 
>> 
>> Can you send CW on simplex?
>> Let’s work something out. 
>> Bill
>> 73
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Aug 6, 2021, at 10:18, Harmon Morgan via CQ <cq at lists.lakelandarc.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I think you have a good idea. To answer your question, to the best of my knowledge, no. Are you proposing using MCW over FM or real CW? If you are proposing real CW, there are few people with suitable 2M radios. At one time, John KK4ITX had a (real) CW net going on 10M. I do not know what happened to it. Right now, I am in between 10M antennas. 
>>> 
>>> Buddy WB4OMG
>>> 
>>>> On Aug 6, 2021, at 9:59 AM, William Paul via CQ <cq at lists.lakelandarc.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Is there a CW training net on 2 meters or 70cm in the Lakeland area?
>>>> If there isn’t, would you like to start one?
>>>> 73
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
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