[1000mp] Key Clicks -- My MP Experience

Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:37:04 -0800 (PST)

The quick way is to look at your signal on an oscilloscope.

If it has a short rise and fall time you most likely click.

--- "Tom Rohlfing (home)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> For what it's worth...  I have a 1998-vintage MP.  I have
> incorporated
> the W8JI mod.  Here are a couple of interesting anecdotes.  
> 
> 1.  Before I did the mod (perhaps a year ago), I occasionally asked
> some
> of my good CW buddies to listen for clicks on my signal.  I have a CW
> QSO almost every morning on 80M with a group of guys.  One of them
> lived
> about two miles from my house, and another lives about 60 miles away.
> Both of them tried to listen carefully by tuning around, and said
> they
> didn't hear any clicks.  I don't know whether they were just afraid
> to
> offend me, or if I really didn't have any clicks.
> 
> 2.  I listened to my own signal with my spare rig (TS-520S).  I
> listened
> to my MP signal without any antenna connected to the 520, and tried
> to
> set it for about an S9 on my signal.  This rig has a 500 Hz. CW
> filter--the only choice.  I could definitely hear some clicks when
> the
> signal was outside the filter's passband.
> 
> 3.  After performing the W8JI mod, my CW friends still reported no
> clicks on my signal, and they also reported that they didn't hear any
> softening or degradation of the CW dits (we do anywhere from 30 to
> over
> 45 wpm).  So for my use, I think the W8JI mod is fine as far as QRQ
> is
> concerned.
> 
> 4.  I did some IN/OUT tests of the W8JI mod, using my TS-520S.  It
> definitely did reduce the key clicks several S-units.  
> 
> So for me, I'm glad I did the mod.  It didn't do anything bad, and it
> probably did some good.  
> 
> 73,
> Tom / W7GT
> CW is A1
>   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 8:46 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [1000mp] No Clicks on Field
> 
> Hi Dean,
> 
> I am finding the same as you.  I cannot hear clicks
> on my Mk-V Field using a second receiver.
> Also,  others have confirmed that I do not have key clicks!!!
> 
> 73,  Ted  K2QMF
> 
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 17:35:55 -0800 "Dean Fewkes" <[email protected]>
> writes:
> > I have a MK5 Field and despite considerable testing I cannot detect
> 
> > any abnormal key clicks. I can hear them, but only along the very 
> > edge of my transmitted signal, about 100 cycles in either 
> > direction.
> > 
> > My testing has been with 2 different receivers, wide and narrow 
> > filters, strong and weak signals. 
> > 
> > I have heard real key clicks and I know what they sound like but I 
> > just cannot detect them on my field.
> > 
> > My rig was manufactured in July '02 and purchased in May '03.  I 
> > suspect that Yaesu may have corrected the problem on the newer 
> > Fields. Has anybody else tested newer models of the Field?
> > 
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