[1000mp] Re: MP Key Clicks

[Jan Erik Holm]

Please do the mod, the MP is a terrible click machine!!!!

/ Jim SM2EKM
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Tom (xmission) wrote:

>Hello CW Friends,
>
>I have had my MP for almost 2 years now, and of course I love it.  99.44% CW
>for me!
>
>I have observed some chat over the past year or two about key clicks on the
>MP.  And now Inrad has come out with a key click mod.  So there appear to be
>three choices relative to key clicks:
>
>1)  Do nothing.
>2) Implement the W8JI mod (http://www.w8ji.com/Click/3653).
>3) Buy the Inrad mod (http://www.qth.com/inrad/).
>
>So I'm looking for some feedback from you MP-ers.  I have never heard anyone
>say that my signal has a click problem.  But of course all CW signals
>produce sin(x)/x sidebands at some level, so it's just a matter of the
>tradeoff between a crisp dit and unwanted sidebands.  Does the situation
>vary a great deal from one MP to another (some have bad clicks, and others
>are pretty good)?  Or are they all the same, and it's just a matter of how
>picky the owner is?  Or is it influenced in some way by the kind of
>electronic keyer you use (internal vs. Brand X external)?
>
>I want to have a clean signal, but I don't want to have a really "soft" CW
>keying waveform that's hard to copy for a good QRQ QSO.  For those of you
>who think a mod is worthwhile, is the extra complexity of the W8JI mod worth
>the extra work as compared with the Inrad mod?
>
>So, opinions, please, about choices 1, 2 and 3 above, plus other editorials
>comments based on your experience and observations.
>
>Best of 73,
>Tom / W7GT
>
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