[Elecraft] Eagle keying

[Rick Prather]

I know my Omni VII had a noticeable amount of relay noise.  

It surprised me since after shutting off the Amplifier relay on my Omni V and VI they were completely silent  (like my K3).

Rick
K6LE

On 9/27/2010, at 4:23 , Steve Ellington wrote:

> Sir:
> To my knowledge, all TenTec rigs that ran 100 watts always used a tiny reed 
> relay to switch the antenna from xmit to recv. Only their low power rigs 
> used pin diode switching for this. The little relay was so quiet that you 
> had to put your ear on the cabinet to hear it however and it caused a lot of 
> folks to believe none was present.
> How about a nice HW-16? No relay!
> 
> Steve
>