[Elecraft] clix

[David A. Belsley]

Well, with all the postings about how to listen for one's clix, I cranked 
up the Drake 2C and R4B, both using 400Hz filters, detuned so that my 
K2/100 signal at 100 watts into a dummy load was S9, tuned up and down 
beyond the signal and . . . . . . . nothing heard on the 2C and only a very 
mild, just audible sound on the R4B.  I couldn't be sure the sound on the 
R4B was in fact clix from the K2/100 or artifacts in nonlinear responses in 
the R4B due to proximity.  There is always something problematic about 
listening to a xmitter in a rx sitting on the same shelf, even qrp.  So I 
could draw no conclusions other than, were I a fellow contester sitting 
just down the table from the K2/100 within 1KHz I would have found nothing 
(nothing) the slightest bit unfriendly or objectionable. Who knows?

But, the one thing I did learn for sure was: this is one of the few times 
I've really had a chance to listen to the K2 note in another rx, something 
other than the sidetone.  And, by golly and by gosh, it really sounds 
super.  No wonder I keep getting nice comments on the air about the note -- 
and none about clix (I've never had one).

Oh well, things do differ at different places.

best wishes,

dave belsley, w1euy

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David A. Belsley
Professor of Economics