[Elecraft] TX CW “splatter” - context -contests

[Jim Brown]

On 6/11/2021 9:22 AM, PHILIP ALLARDICE via Elecraft wrote:
> I am using the term CW splatter to cover clicks, phase noise, IMD
>   and  other hallmarks of a wide signal.

Clicks and what we have long called splatter ARE exactly the same 
mechanism -- intermod distortion of an amplitude modulated signal. In 
the case of CW, its 100% amplitude modulation of a carrier by a 
rectangular keying waveform. Phase noise is an entirely different 
mechanism.

73, Jim K9YC