Re: TO Keyer help
Any device that puts morse code on a transmitter to convey intelligence is a keyer. Since a key keys, it is a keyer. That could even be broader for some digital modes and modulators. 73 ¨C Mike Mike
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Mike Feher
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#30919
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Re: TO Keyer help
Nope - a bug is a semi-automatic K-E-Y? Not a keyer. The term "keyer" should be limited to the electronic device that electrically generates dits/dahs (and requires the use of a mechanical KEY
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Robert Needleman
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#30918
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Re: TO Keyer help
Well, it's pretty clear that Vibroplex is the guilty party here. For some reason, they had the "brilliant" (not ) idea of naming their version of a single lever paddle "Vibrokeyer". Obviously it is a
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Robert Needleman
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#30917
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Re: TO Keyer help
Hah! This gets even more fun. My kx3 lets me send RTTY using the CW paddles. Does that mean my kx3 is an ASR-33? :-) It decodes RTTY as well. But I can't figure out where to load the paper roll :-(
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Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
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#30916
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Re: TO Keyer help
Hi Rich ¨C You are right, the word keyer alone does not define the instrument. I have over 500 telegraph keys in my collection, but slowly downsizing. However in the context of the HA-1 the keying
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Mike Feher
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Re: TO Keyer help
I think there is confusion in the nomenclature. By keyer I think you mean what is sometimes called a paddle or paddle set. The thing that is used to operate the "keyer" meaning the thing that switches
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Richard Knoppow
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#30914
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Re: TO Keyer help
That is correct, Jeep. All keyers have three contacts. One common and like you said one for dits and the other for dahs. 73 ¨C Mike Mike B. Feher, N4FS 89 Arnold Blvd. Howell NJ 07731 908-902-3831
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Mike Feher
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#30913
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Re: TO Keyer help
And as others have mentioned, this is NOT an iambic keyer. It works best with a single-arm paddle. A Vibroplex Vibrokeyer is a period appropriate paddle to use with your HA-1. Lots of those all over
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Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
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#30912
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Re: TO Keyer help
Bill Carpenter writes: The keyer switches a mercury wetted relay which has its NO contacts connected to pins 1 (ground) and 2 on the octal plug. Depending on your radio's keying voltage and current,
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Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
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#30911
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Re: TO Keyer help
Looks like you have received good information and I think you will enjoy the TO keyer. It will key any radio. Boat Anchor or other. One difference is that it doesn¡¯t have self completing dits and
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Mike Wells
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#30910
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Re: TO Keyer help
Should work fine. Check the section on the protective circuit. Probably not really necessary but double check. On mine its mounted on the back of the octal plug. If you have used a keyer the TO is a
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Richard Knoppow
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#30909
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Re: TO Keyer help
Thanks Richard, The input from the paddle I know but the manual isn't real specific on the out put.? I've been a CW op for over 42 years now but have never used an older vacuum tube keyer.? I'll use
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Bill Carpenter
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Re: HT-37 transformer failure due to rapid STBY-->OFF-->STBY
Hi Don, ¡°turns off the transmitter¡¯s power ¡± means turns the original power switch CCW.? This cuts power to the SSR management circuit, but not to the SSR's themselves.? The SSR management
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HF
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#30907
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Re: TO Keyer help
There is a good manual on BAMA. Paddles can be connected via a 1/4 inch TRS "Stereo" plug on the panel or via wires to the octal accessory plug on the back. Sleeve is common, dash is the ring, dot is
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Richard Knoppow
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#30906
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Re: HT-37 transformer failure due to rapid STBY-->OFF-->STBY
Halden, I don¡¯t know what ¡°turns off the transmitter¡¯s power¡± means now; perhaps it means turns the reconnected power switch to OFF ? Below is some ideas based on what I think you are doing.
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don Root
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#30905
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Re: TO Keyer help
The TO keyer requires a stereo 1/4" plug to connect to an external paddle (tip - dot/ ring-dash/ground). Then you need to connect a MONO 1/4" plug to the TS-530's key jack? (the 530 manual states
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Robert Needleman
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#30904
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Re: TO Keyer help
Does not the TO require a 3 circuit "stereo" 1/4" plug. One side dit, other side dah? K3HVG
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D. Platt
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#30903
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Re: TO Keyer help
It's made to plug into the standard key jack common on rigs of that era, straight two conductor. Check your radios manual for wiring, tip usually the line to key and ground is the body of the plug.
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edward schumacher
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#30902
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TO Keyer help
I was given a TO keyed that is in great shape except for a broken knob. It appears to work too with? paddles plugged in and headphones it keys OK and sounds good.? But even though I found and
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Bill Carpenter
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#30901
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Re: HT-37 transformer failure due to rapid STBY-->OFF-->STBY
Well Halden , we are guessing, it might be an inrush adder that is not obvious, or maybe the rectifier tube[s] not quite ¡°balanced¡± or whatever. I have not looked at the bias at all, but would not
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don Root
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