Before we paint all manufactures with the same brush, let me point out that
the latest Kenwood and Icom products,the TS-2000 and the Icom 756pro11, have
very clean keying when you set the slope at the 8ms. settings. I do not
begrudge them for making it variable, because it is to some extent a matter
of taste, as the 45wpm+ QRQ guys would never buy a radio fixed at 8ms.
Yaesu, the one we use the most, does not seem to get it. Although an excuse
might be that all their radios are basically adaptations to a 12 year old
FT-1000 design, if they had fixed it 10 years ago, think how much cleaner
the bands would be.
John K9DX
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