[Elecraft] Another urban legend: clicks needed for readability

[Earl W Cunningham]

Vic, K2VCO wrote:

"Keep in mind that the effect of narrowing the bandwidth in your receiver
is to round the edges of the received signal."
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Keep in mind that the primary reason, IMO, is to increase the S/N of the
receiver so that you can hear weak signals better.  An unmodified
(clicky) K2 1 kHz away from my receive frequency is painfully obvious
when I'm using narrow filters.
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"To put it another way, the only time you can distinguish a hard from a
soft signal is when it is loud and you are using low selectivity."  
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A signal out of your receiver's passband that has clicks is more apparent
when using high selectivity, not low.

If you want to maintain the respect of operators who are in QSO adjacent
to your signal, do the click mod, regardless of whether you are QRP or
QRO!

73, de Earl, K6SE
olinger@bellsouth.net, elecraft@mailman.qth.net