Topband: Yaesu Key clicks

[Jim W7RY]

Lets not just pick on Yaesu here....

Remember that the 756 PROII has keyclicks too when set at the default 
settings!  The keyclicks are much better at the highest setting, but not as 
good as could be.


73!

Jim W7RY


At 07:26 PM 11/29/2004, Ron Spencer wrote:
>Regardless of whether there are more or less ops on cw I think the real
>point is that a major radio manufacturer (in this case Yaesu) has continued
>to build radios that have well known and easily fixed defects.
>
>While we seem to have little impact on their desire to fix the problems we
>can, and should vote with our wallet. I HATE to hear of someone buying a
>brand new radio and having the mods done. Why not buy another brand without
>mods needed?? As a community we, hams, should be putting as much pressure on
>the manufacturer as we can to get them to turn out radios that don't clutter
>up the band with key clicks, phase noise, or other extraneous junk! We send
>the wrong signal when we continue to buy the radios we complain about.
>
>Ron
>N4XD
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: topband-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com]
>On Behalf Of Tom Rauch
>Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:18 PM
>To: Jim Brown; topband at contesting.com
>Subject: Re: Topband: Yaesu Key clicks
>
> > Some folks with megastations like yours tend to lose sight
>of how
> > the majority of hams have to live.
>
>Hi Jim,
>
>Your observation was that no one was on CW, and that's why a manufacturer in
>a country where 160 is 100% CW by law doesn't need to worry about correcting
>a design problem that won't even affect the cost of the products they sell.
>
>My station and your station doesn't have anything to do with how many people
>work CW, except to add two people to the total count.
>
>I didn't create the stations I heard and the stations that were worked, I
>only reported they actually existed (and also mentioned 40m was loaded with
>CW after sunrise, it's that way every day).
>
>There isn't any doubt in my mind there are more people on CW now than there
>were 10 or 20 years ago. I think there is less ragchewing, but that's true
>on SSB and even on 2 meter FM. When people want to talk now, they type.
>
>As an example we could be working CW or SSB and talking about this, but we
>are here typing. But we both are active on CW, as are about 50% of the
>active Hams.
>
>73 Tom
>
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