[CQ-Contest] How close is too close?

[Barry N1EU]

One thing left out of the possible picture Ed is that some rigs have
wide xmit signals (i.e., key clicks, spurs, etc).  No matter how good
your receiver's close-in performance is, a nearby station with key
clicks is going to spoil your party.  Have your MP's been effectively
de-clicked?

(and for whatever reason, there seemed to be more key clicks on the
bands then ever this past weekend)

Barry N1EU

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Edward Sawyer <SawyerEd at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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?
>
>
>
> Why would the FT1000MP Low Power guy be bothering the full power guy with
> much newer and clearly better gear?  Is it that they are expecting 700 -
> 1000hz of quiet breathing room in one of the biggest CW contests of the year
> on an open band?  I certainly hope not.
>
>
>
> So what is the opinion from the group?  With the great rated receivers out
> there, how close can someone get on CW and not really bother your run?  For
> me its 350hz.  Inside that and it causes problems.  If I hear 2 guys 700 -
> 900hz apart, I am slipping in between.
>
>
>
> Maybe I should buy an amp and really push the impact out there.  With low
> power, I shouldn't be your worst problem.
>
>
>
> Ed  N1UR
>
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