[CQ-Contest] Click, click, click...

[Guy Olinger]

Think probably has a good deal less to do with the exciter than how the
amplifier is driven. Particularly those amps that need only 65 watts to
drive it to 1.5 kW.

The loading needs to be backed off until as the drive is increased the
grid current increases linearly, and the curve has NOT gone into
compression as 1.5 kW or max power has been reached.

Note that this happy least clickey state is NOT usually attained by
tuning for maximum smoke. And some of the same signals that are clickey
on CW are broad on SSB. Keep a list and check it out.

I heard you on in the ARRL CW. You weren't clickey. Clean sharp signal,
but not clickey.

73

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Guy Olinger, K2AV
Apex, NC, USA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Fisher W4AN" <w4an at contesting.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 7:13 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Click, click, click...


 >
 >
 > The key clicks seem to be getting worse and worse.  This year in the
CQ
 > 160 contest, there was one station who could be heard most of 5KC with
 > his FT1000D.  Several others using Yaesu radios were also producing
really
 > poor signals.  The same thing this weekend, although I'm not as
familiar
 > with the radios that most Europeans are using.
 >
 > I'm using FT1000MPs at my station and have been told in the past that
my
 > signal was "clicky" or "wide" and I always shrugged it off since my
radio
 > was "state of the art".  Now, I'm pretty sure that my state of the art
 > radio is contributing to the problem.
 >
 > I'm happy to apply any modification or fix to my Yaesu radios to help
cure
 > this problem.  But I don't even know if this problem can be fixed.
Are
 > any of you "smarties" out there aware of which radios are the problem?
My
 > observations are far from scientific.
 >
 > Also, how do you folks think offenders should be dealt with?  If I'm
 > producing a signal that is 3KC wide, and nobody can get close to me,
do I
 > not have an advantage over a station who has a clean signal?  If your
 > answer is there is nothing that can be done with offenders, then why
 > should I not modify my radio to produce an even wider signal?
 >
 > Something to think about OMs.
 >
 > 73
 >
 > Bill Fisher
 >
 >
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