{"id":1373,"date":"2015-06-19T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/19\/why-are-relays-marked-k-on-schematics\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:22:00","slug":"why-are-relays-marked-k-on-schematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/19\/why-are-relays-marked-k-on-schematics\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are relays marked “K” on schematics?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/strong> Here is some ham radio\/electronics trivia<\/strong><\/div>\n
In the days when amateur radio used short range spark transmitters, multi-station relays were used to move a message across longer distances. At the end of each transmission, a “K” was sent, which told the receiving operator to commence his relay to the next station. <\/strong>Hence the use of ‘K” to designate a relay in a schematic diagram, and “end-of-transmission” for CW operators. <\/strong>And hence the American Radio RELAY League<\/p>\n

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Our official SolderSmoke etymologist and lexicographer Steve Silverman explains: Bill Here is some ham radio\/electronics trivia In the days when amateur radio used short range spark transmitters, multi-station relays were used to move a message across longer distances. At the end of each transmission, a “K” was sent, which told the receiving operator to commence … Continue reading “Why are relays marked “K” on schematics?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-radio","category-radio-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}