[CQ-Contest] Transmitter Problems - CQWW (160m)

[Steve Root]

Roger,

I remember hearing you quite a bit over the weekend and you sounded fine to
me.  On the occasions when  I've been accused of having key clicks, I always
ask the guy to turn his noise blanker off and listen to me again.  A lot of
times they just go away.

73 Steve K0SR


----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Parsons" <ve3zi at yahoo.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 1:59 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Transmitter Problems - CQWW (160m)


> Early in the contest I was called by K3JJG who nicely
> advised me that my transmission was noisy. It was a
> recurrence of the well known Icom PLL trimmer phase
> noise problem (I think - I will fix it over the next
> few days). I was able to swap rigs and Ed waited to
> tell me all was OK. Sorry if I caused any problems to
> other stations. Ed's help was greatly appreciated.
>
> Later in the contest an unidentified station jumped on
> top of a weak European I was trying to decode and said
> I had major key clicks. This 'help' was not
> appreciated, and I'm afraid I ignored it except to
> stop using full break-in.
>
> I don't think I have significant key clicks, but it's
> very difficult to be certain. What I am sure about is
> that the transmitter/amplifier/antenna switching is
> properly sequenced - there is definitely no hot
> switching. Listening to my own transmission with
> suitable attenuation it appears clean. Various other
> stations seemed to have no problem starting up a few
> hundred Hz from my run frequency. Rigs are IC-765s.
>
> I would however be grateful for critical reports
> direct.
>
> Thanks
> 73 Roger
> VE3ZI
>
>
>
>
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