[1000mp] FT1000MP Key Clicks on first element DO Matter

[Pete Smith]

At 09:21 PM 1/1/03 -0800, k6se@juno.com wrote:
>"Is this correct?  Seems to me that if the suppressed carrier frequency
>of the test RX is 700 Hz off the Field's frequency, and the test RX has
>good, cascaded 400 hz filters, for example, then its response will be
>only down ~ 6 dB (at a guess) at 300 Hz away from the Field.  That
>doesn't sound to me like a very good test."
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>If you tune outside of the receiver's passband where you can no longer
>hear the CW signal but you hear clicks, the transmitted signal has
>clicks.  This is exactly what happens when you hear key clicks (but no
>signal) in your receiver during a CW contest, for instance.

This strikes me as just too "binary" a standard.  No receiver has infinite 
rejection of all energy outside its passband.  This is why I asked why a 
spectrum analyzer, properly used, wouldn't be a better test.

73, Pete N4ZR
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