Topband: Key Clicks

Tom Rauch w8ji at contesting.com
Mon Jan 29 08:10:20 EST 2007


>> I have a question Paul. What ALC level does ICOM say to 
>> run on CW? Do they tell you to barely run the ALC up with 
>> the drive control?
>
> I've gone through the manual, and perhaps I'm missing it 
> but I do not see any recommendation from Icom.  So, it 
> seems the user is left to figure this out for him or 
> herself.

Then that is useful information, because when I tested a 
7800 I did so with normal ALC (slightly up in the active 
region). Apparently they have the timing correct but forgot 
to tell the user about the ALC on CW.

73 Tom 




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