[Elecraft] OT - 6 meter beacon clicks followup ????

[Rick Stealey]

On his listing on QRZ.com it indicates he is running an FT690 and a "homebrew" GE amplifier 
for his beacon.  Both are bad news.  Yaesu's are not known for having clean keying, and running 
it into a (presumably) class C amplifier would make it worse.
He sure thinks he is doing the ham fraternity a good deed, well intentioned.  He is
just highly uninformed from a technical standpoint.
Suggestion - you MIGHT ask him if he would run a test with you and run the rig barefoot.
If that cleans it up then you at least have something to discuss with him on a technical
level - the possible replacement of the amp.
It doesn't look like he has much modern equipment.  Any way you might talk him into 
replacing the old Yaesu with a K3?  (yeah, right).
GL
Rick  K2XT