I agree with you, Bill. Have noticed same thing re lots of clicks on the
bands during contests, thought it was just me, though. I run my MP with
about 15-20 db of Attentuation, i.e., helps me when working weaker EUs with
40-over Ws & VEs nearby. I've heard that MPs are bad for clicks (not sure
if true, though).
73, Paul
At 07:13 PM 2/22/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
>The key clicks seem to be getting worse and worse. This year in the CQ
>160 contest, there was one station who could be heard most of 5KC with
>his FT1000D. Several others using Yaesu radios were also producing really
>poor signals. The same thing this weekend, although I'm not as familiar
>with the radios that most Europeans are using.
>
>I'm using FT1000MPs at my station and have been told in the past that my
>signal was "clicky" or "wide" and I always shrugged it off since my radio
>was "state of the art". Now, I'm pretty sure that my state of the art
>radio is contributing to the problem.
>
>I'm happy to apply any modification or fix to my Yaesu radios to help cure
>this problem. But I don't even know if this problem can be fixed. Are
>any of you "smarties" out there aware of which radios are the problem? My
>observations are far from scientific.
>
>Also, how do you folks think offenders should be dealt with? If I'm
>producing a signal that is 3KC wide, and nobody can get close to me, do I
>not have an advantage over a station who has a clean signal? If your
>answer is there is nothing that can be done with offenders, then why
>should I not modify my radio to produce an even wider signal?
>
>Something to think about OMs.
>
>73
>
>Bill Fisher
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