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Topband: possible key click solution?

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Subject: Topband: possible key click solution?
From: 2@vc.net (Rich)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:12:02 -0800
>
>Tom R wrote:
>Because unless there are penalties for things like spurious 
>emissions or operating in the Window it will always continue.? 
>
>Me: My answer to the Intercontinental window issue was to not work NA 
>stations calling CQ there. And as far as key clicks go, perhaps it's time to 
>take out the Wouff Hong or maybe even the....the.... dreaded Rettysnitch! 
>But 
>seriously, the FT1000MP problem looks like something a voluntary recall can 
>take care of. Free shipping both ways and all of that. This situation can be 
>made win-win.

**  in my experiences, a cw rise-time and/or fall-time of under 2mS will 
produce key-klicks.  There are R-C wave shaping components in a radio's 
keying circuitry that can be changed to adjust rise and fall times.

-  Rich..., 805.386.3734, www.vcnet.com/measures.  


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