Well, it's time to get out the old scope and track down that click. You
should be able to see that spike on the af amplifier easily. You may end
up bypassing some leads on the af chip to ground with a .01mfd cap just to
see it it helps.
73
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Dale L. Martin wrote:
>
>
>
> >Sounds kinda like RF on the speaker leads. Have you tried
> reducing power to
> >see if it still happens? If it quits, try bypassing your speaker
> leads at
> >the speaker using a .01mfd cap.
> >
>
> Steve,
> Thanks for the note. RF is not an issue. In fact, when I
> recorded both segments, I had set up the radio with the recently
> learned (learned by me, that is) procedure to practice CW without
> putting the radio on the air (Push ST, Push CW, key away). In
> previous test setups, I simply ran the RF drive down to
> minimum--~0 watts out on the wattmeters.
>
> I wish it was simply an RF problem.
>
> 73,
> dale, kg5u
>
>
>
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