[1000mp] MP Clicks

[Tom Rauch]

I'm having some difficulty posting, so if this is a duplicate forgive 
me.

All stock FT1000MP's and FT1000(D's) click excessively. I'm not 
sure about MK V's but certainly some click excessively.

There are several reasons why we might not always hear the 
clicks....the S/N ratio might not be high enough, there might be 
QRM, we might be using a wide receiver filter. I'm sure there are 
even people who think clicks are normal or "necessary".

But they all click much more than necessary because the rise and 
fall is much too fast and very poorly shaped. In the FT1000(D) they 
band the SSB filter with a square wave, making the clicks "peak" 
at the filter poles (about 1-1.5kHz up and down). Both the MP and 
the 1000(D) are about 3kHz wide before clicks disappear into the 
composite noise of the transmitter.

There is absolutely no need for that much bandwidth on CW.   
73, Tom W8JI
W8JI@contesting.com