Talk:Continuous wave
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This creates an interesting situation: CW is a redirect for Morse code. And yet, there is certainly a distinction between Morse code, which can be transmitted by means other than CW, and "Continuous wave". But, in the real world, Morse code has only been used, to any significant extent, by way of CW for many years. So the two have really come to be somewhat synonymous. I'd be inclined to merge the two under Morse code with an explanation of the problem. Most of what I have to say about CW, I'd be inclined to say in the Morse code article, probably because that's where most of it already is. Bill 11:56, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Well, CW was a redirect for Morse until a few minutes ago. Bill 11:58, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)
It would be better instead to link other uses of continuous wave to support the distinction. Waveguy 01:40, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
The only use of CW I know of is to send Morse code by way of radio. Historically, Morse code has been used in media other than CW, but this is addressed in the Morse code article. Unlike most forms of radio transmission, CW in unmodulated. That is, it is a pure carrier in which no intelligence has been encoded. -- Bill 12:36, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
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- This has been here for years but it's not correct; on-off keying is a form of modulation by definition! And, pedantically, you might say ICW for "Interrupted continuous wave" but anyone who uses the term "CW" understands that; a continous wave is a mathematical fiction, anyway. --Wtshymanski 02:09, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
Feld-Hellschreiber is also a CW mode. It uses (in its basic form) on off keying to represent characters, though anti-aliasing can be done by changing the level of the carrier... Jdos2 18:58, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
