Aside from attempts to use the BitX for what I would call "true CW," i.e., "A1A" mode in which the carrier is directly keyed (with or without shaping) and having a "necessary" bandwidth of only a few hundred Hertz, I'm interested in clarifying the use of what is sometimes (erroneously?) called "modulated" CW (MCW): using SSB modulation to simulate the audible CW tone (in true CW produced by tuning away from zero beat) by injecting a fixed tone into the audio input of an SSB exciter. Though the resulting transmission would sound like CW in an SSB receiver, it wouldn't be intelligible in a CW-only receiver, nor would it occupy a narrow bandwidth like true CW. Moreover, since it would be SSB modulated rather than A1A CW, its use would not be permissible in the CW-only portions of the amateur bands. Those portions are reserved only for the narrow bandwidth of true CW, and an SSB-generated CW-like signal would take up as much bandwidth as several closely-spaced true CW ones.
Have I understood this correctly?
73,
Todd K7TFC
Todd K7TFC