[CQ-Contest] How close is too close?

[RT Clay]

Have you checked your signal for key clicks and have you done the FT-1000 key click mods? If not, then that might be the reason.

Tor
N4OGW

--- On Mon, 2/20/12, Edward Sawyer <SawyerEd at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Edward Sawyer <SawyerEd at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] How close is too close?
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Monday, February 20, 2012, 5:55 AM
> It is interesting that I hear all
> these great reports of how wonderful the
> (plug in your favorite radio here) receiver is for close
> channel separation
> and brick wall blah blah blah.  Usually the venerable
> FT1000MP is used as a
> comparison dummy in the statement.  I run 2 of them
> here.  And low power
> (which for this past weekend was 150W).
> 
>  
> 
> Numerous times this weekend I am being asked to QSY when
> "firing up" about
> 350 to 500hz away from a BIG GUN Multi.  One of them
> was 10 over to me on
> 40M and I had zero problem hearing the noise floor where I
> was sitting and
> was actually running at 100 rate.  Yet this clearly
> bothered the other op.
> What's with this? 
>