W4ZV> Excuse me?...the FT-1000 was introduced around 1990 and was shipped with clicks until it was recently discontinued. It all started even earlier with FT-980 keying circuit which had no cliks but 30% short dots. I tried to be nice with JA :-) FT-1000 MK VII Perfect eagerly expected... 73 de Oiram, S56A, N1YU