[1000mp] ARRL testing of Clicks

[Rick Stealey]

Tom says:
>Who gives a crap what the envelope looks like, put it all in numbers.

Right you are Tom.  It's the same as loooking at an oscilloscope view of a 
carrier and trying to decide what kind of a 2nd harmonic the carrier 
contains.  Show it to ten people and you'll get ten different opinions.  A 
scope view of a keying waveform just isn't the way to inform us as to the 
effect the rig has out on the ham bands.
The rigs have problems, serious problems.   This group (which probably 
contains guys in the top 1% technically) has identified the defects.  Now 
the next step is to get pressure on the manufacturers so something is done 
about it.  Not easy to do.  How many of you know an RF designer who works on 
the design of the 1000MP at Yaesu?  No one does.  Can anyone even tell what 
city Yaesu is located in?  No!  So how are we going to get the word to them 
to do something?  By exposing the defects in LANGUAGE THE AVERAGE HAM CAN 
UNDERSTAND.  So when the average ham goes into AES he says "I don't want to 
buy a 1000MP because QST said it is clicky, and the TS-2000 is not."   You 
can bet your (word for posterior) when QST says the 1000MP is "5 KHz wide 
and stations nearby may become annoyed at the user of this rig" word will 
get to the design department at Yaesu pronto.  Heck it wouldn't hurt if 
something was published like "We have discovered that all previous models of 
this rig have the same problem and can easily be identified on the air just 
by the bandwidth they occupy and QST/ARRL think Yaesu should get their head 
out of the sand and issue a fix for this problem the way auto manufacturers 
issue recall announcements."
The time is now for ARRL to stop acting like a government agency, full of 
beaurocracy, and lay it out on the table!

There,I feel better now!

Rick  K2XT



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