[VHFcontesting] Dumb question about Mirage amp

[Rogers, Ron]

Agreed about the drop out time during SSB.  Just depends on the time delay components Mirage has on the RF keying circuit that sets the drop out time.
 
CW will definitely require having the external control jack of the amp connected to the VOX keyed (external amp control) output of the IC-7000. 
 
Ron
WW8RR
 

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From: vhfcontesting-bounces at contesting.com on behalf of Tom Carney
Sent: Sat 1/5/2008 2:44 PM
To: VHFcontesting at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Dumb question about Mirage amp



John Geiger wrote:
> Yes, the Mirage will do RF sensed keying, so there is
> no reason you have to hard key the amp using this
> jack.
>
> 73s John AA5JG
>

While it will work fine with RF sensed keying, I find that the relay
will drop out during pauses of a SSB transmission.  This drives me crazy
so I use hard keying.

I would try it with RF first keying and see if it works OK for you.
You can always add hard keying later if needed.

73,

Tom  K6EU  aka K6EU/r

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