[Elecraft] cw 'clicking' ??

[Bill VanAlstyne W5WVO]

LOL Well, he looks like a real nice guy, nice QRZ page. You didn't mention 
his call/name, so I won't either (after the recent foofaraw about "outing" 
somebody), but finding out who he is doesn't take a rocket scientist. :-)

Does he know you're hearing clicks from his beacon transmitter? He seems to 
be a very active and public ham in your area, so I'm sure he'd like to know. 
He says on his QRZ page that everything in his shack is Icom, so I assume 
that includes the beacon radios -- though he doesn't say specifically what 
those transmitters are. (He has a beacon on 2m also.)

I played around with converting an old low-band FM radio into a 6m beacon a 
few years ago, and I never could get the key clicks out of it no matter how 
I tried to key it. The ARRL Handbook "suggested" a rather elaborate 
keying/shaping circuit with multiple semiconductor devices, and I wasn't up 
for going to that level of complexity, so I just gave up on the project. (I 
know, shame on me.) Key clicks can be a bear to get rid of -- but I haven't 
specifically heard of any Icom radios having a bad key click problem like 
many Yaesu radios are known to. Others may know otherwise; I've never owned 
any Icom radios besides an IC-22 in the early 1970s. :-)

Bill W5WVO

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From: "Steve Ellington" <n4lq at carolina.rr.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5:51 PM
To: "callen1155" <callen1155 at yahoo.com>; <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] cw 'clicking' ??

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>
> Steve
> N4LQ
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "callen1155" <callen1155 at yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 7:27 PM
> Subject: [Elecraft] cw 'clicking' ??
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>
>>
>>
>> Hello folks.
>>
>> I have a fellow ham a mile down the road that is running a 6 meter cw
>> beacon
>> at 100 watts. His transmit freq is 50.060 MHz. With my K3 (stock 2,7k
>> filter
>> only) I hear his 'clicking' at 50.125 MHz while listening for SSB
>> activity.
>> My antenna is a random length dipole (about 200 feet long).
>>
>> Is this 'clicking' normal and is there a solution to eliminate it?
>>
>> thanks.
>> chuck
>> af4xk
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