[Elecraft] Key Clicks

[Fred Jensen]

True.  TXDelay is a sequencing parameter to assure that downstream 
switching has completed before RF appears. The keying waveform 
[particularly the edges and "corners"] affect the sidebands and thus 
bandwidth of the CW signal.  I don't believe QSK has anything to do with 
it, at least for a K3.

73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 6/6/2020 4:55 PM, N4ZR wrote:
> There's a big discussion going on in contesting circles online about 
> the problem of key clicks.  There's been a lot of discussion about 
> settings called things like TXDelay, but so far as I can tell (and the 
> manual confirms), the K3's TX delay is intended to protect amplifier 
> relays at the start of a transmission.  So long as you don't run QSK, 
> I would think that setting would have no influence on key clicks after 
> the rise of the first CW element.  True?