Pixie CW transceiver

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This thread is started as we diverted NRs thread about simple PC solutions into discussion about this £3.00 transceiver.

The Pixie transceiver is a very simple, small and low power consuming device that is capable of send in and receiving messages out to around 200 miles from base.

The snags are that most of these radios come as kits that you have to assemble yourself ( very simple kit to build though), they only operate on a single frequency, and possibly more of a stumbling block is that they are morse code only.

Picking up from a reply from River Song:


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RE: Technology
@LS - You're a scholar and a gentleman sir!

Lets take this a little further for those of us not totally morse code efficient.

Imagine a cut down PC that has a program outputting morse (CW) on its sound card
and receiving CW on its mic port such as ....

http://www.polar-electric.com/Morse/MRP40-EN/

Would you have a nice little combo for SHTF conditions?

LS - put yer thinking cap on

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RS. yes using a computer sound card to hear morse code and then some software to convert it is a very well proven method.

outputting morse from a computer does not use its sound card. Morse transmitters have a simple on/off switch to the transmitter circuit. The morse tone is generated entirely within the radio, it is not a sound that is injected into the transmission from an external source. So, the computer has to operate a timed on/off switch. ( timed for dahs and dits)

Using a computer to decipher morse is often more effective than the human ear / brain.

There are also stand alone devices that can decipher morse:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Morse-Code-Rea...543wt_1298

or decoder and encoder from a normal computer keyboard like this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CW-Signal-Gene...588wt_1037