This group is clickish. Back in the old telegraph days they could copy
clicks from their sounders. Nowadays we must have tones and some of us,
like me, want pure sinewave tones. When I was a teenager, someone gave me
a WW2 BC-191 boatanchor transmitter. It had a keying relay as big as a
football and could be heard next door. My IC-706 comes close to this
performance. Now isn't it interesting how TT went from reed relays in the
Omni C to diodes in the Corsair and back to relays in the Omni V, Paragon!
Good reed relays aren't cheap but I suppose those pin diodes aren't
either. Wonder what the cost difference was?
>
> Argosy II's with T-R relays click. Argosy II's without T-R Relays don't.
> How strange is that?
>
> Hey, it's Friday afternoon and it's been a long week!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pcuellar@mail.bright.net
> [mailto:pcuellar@mail.bright.net]
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 14:21
> To: tentec@contesting.com
> Subject: RE: Fw: [TenTec] QSK clicking
>
>
> On my 560 Corsair, there is a very soft click inside the rig
> about 3/4 second after last character is sent. No clicks are audible between
> characters. I generally send somewhere between 12-18 WPM. I remember my old
> riceburner on slow CW with "semi break-in" keying, the relay drove me nuts.
> Thank heaven for TT QSK.
> 73 de KB8TRK
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------
> On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:52:13 -0400, tentec@contesting.com
> wrote about Fw: [TenTec] QSK clicking :
> "
> After disconnecting everything external to the rig that
> would make a noise
> on the Corsair II and sticking my ear on the cabinet, I
> cannot hear a reed
> relay. Couldn't find one in the manual, either.
> Mike
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael O. Hyder <N4NT@wireco.net>
> To: Steve Ellington <n4lq@iglou.com>; <JimN0OCT@aol.com>
> Cc: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 11:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] QSK clicking
>
>
> >
> > sounds like a reed relay in the corsair II.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Steve Ellington <n4lq@iglou.com>
> > To: <JimN0OCT@aol.com>
> > Cc: <tentec@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:04 AM
> > Subject: Re: [TenTec] QSK clicking
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Note: I said MOST. Omni A through D used the reed relay.
> All Paragons,
> > > Omni 5's etc also used it. I'm not sure about the
> Corsair using diode
> > > switching at the antenna. Are you sure? Someone with a
> Corsair needs to
> > > put their ear on the cabinet and listen. Century 21 and
> 22 used diodes.
> > > I'll have to check the Argosy I have.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 JimN0OCT@aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > In a message dated 17-Sep-99 05:23:17 Central Daylight
> Time,
> > n4lq@iglou.com
> > > > [Steve Ellington] writes:
> > > >
> > > > > This little relay
> > > > > has been used in most TT rigs since ancient Tritons
> roamed the
> earth.
> > > >
> > > > I beg to differ here. It was used in the Argo 505,
> but not the 509 or
> > 515.
> > > > The Corsairs didn't have a T/R relay, either. All
> diode T/R.
> > > >
> > > > How about the Omni-A/B/C and Paragons? Never owned
> one of those.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Jim
> > > > NØOCT
> >
> >
> >
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