Posted: 7/19/2015 8:20:40 PM EDT
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It's not a big show, so I was pretty happy.
Bencher hey and Cricket 2 BFO for $55.00 Now I have to learn -.-. .-- 
1024x768 LED projector for $35.00 Whatchamacallits and thingamajigs -- priceless. 
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It was the Zerobeaters club ham fest in the thriving metropolis of Washington, MO. All twenty tables had something on them this year. Quoted:
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did you go to ham holiday in OKC or the one in houston It was the Zerobeaters club ham fest in the thriving metropolis of Washington, MO. All twenty tables had something on them this year. Excelent. I was wrong about ham holiday. It is this coming weekend. |
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The "Cricket" is a keyer, not a BFO.  Nice score though!The distinction is somewhat lost on this CW novice. I had one of the Radio Shack "Learn Morse Code" kits back in the 1960's and that was my last serious exposure to dits and dahs. Is the Cricket still valuable for anything other than practice? |
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The distinction is somewhat lost on this CW novice. I had one of the Radio Shack "Learn Morse Code" kits back in the 1960's and that was my last serious exposure to dits and dahs. Is the Cricket still valuable for anything other than practice? Quoted:
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The "Cricket" is a keyer, not a BFO. Nice score though!The distinction is somewhat lost on this CW novice. I had one of the Radio Shack "Learn Morse Code" kits back in the 1960's and that was my last serious exposure to dits and dahs. Is the Cricket still valuable for anything other than practice? You can use it to key a radio that doesn't have a built in keyer. FYI, a BFO is used on an AM receiver to tune in a SSB or CW signal. If you don't have one but happened to have two AM receivers, you can cheat a bit by using one AM receiver to tune in the signal, and a nearby AM receiver with no antenna to tune in the signal on SSB. I've done it with a pair of AM clock radios. |