[1000mp] Key Clicks

[Steve L.]

Tod,

While yours may be a good idea, it is a new idea and
must be feared and rejected.

73, Steve N4SLacker

--- Tod - Minnesota <tao@skypoint.com> wrote:
> Fellow Reflectees:
> 
> I have diligently read all of the 'key click'
> messages.
> 
> As a summary I find that:
> 
> (1). Some people suspect that many/most/all of the
> FT1000MP radios have key
> clicks.
> (2). Some people suspect that some/many/all of the
> FT1000MP-MarkV radios
> have key clicks.
> (3). Some people feel they have reduced their key
> clicks so that they will
> not be embarrassed to operate.
> (4). Several people have listed ways to try to see
> if your radio may have
> more key clicks than you are comfortable having.
> 
> I wonder if it is possible to detail a method that
> will tell YES or NO one's
> radio has "bad" clicks. To do that I suppose we must
> agree on what "bad" is.
> 
> I suggest that based upon what has been written to
> this point that if there
> are no clicks measured higher than -50 dB referenced
> to the carrier within
> +/- 250 Hz of the carrier frequency we should say
> that the 'click level'
> meets "good amateur practice".
> 
> Now some may wish to make the -50 dB higher or lower
> and I have no issue
> with that as long as everyone (almost) agrees on the
> number. The +/- 250Hz
> is based upon filter pass bands of 500Hz and again
> could be different if
> everyone (almost) agrees on a different value.
> 
> One there is an agreed upon standard for "good
> amateur practice" we need to
> agree on a "Standard Method" to measure whether a
> particular radio meets the
> standard. After we have these two things in place we
> can collect data on
> various radios and know that we are comparing apples
> with apples and oranges
> with oranges. Also, we can consider various proposed
> modifications in light
> of the standard and decide which ones to implement
> for ourselves.
> 
> I don't get the impression that anyone is against
> finding ways to reduce
> radiated clicks. I do think there is a lot of fuzzy
> agreement about what
> constitutes clicks and how to measure them. It is
> unlikely that we can
> reduce them to zero by any method but putting out
> contracts on all active
> amateurs (makes QSO's and QSLing rather difficult),
> but we should be able to
> know when one radio is better or worse than another
> and perhaps reduce the
> click level by a notable amount.
> 
> Tod, KOTO
> 
> 
> 
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