[Milsurplus] Just had to comment - chirp

[Ken Gordon]

Well, IMHO it depends very much on the AMOUNT of chirp. Sure, al little is fine, but a yoop 
can make it hard to copy at speeds greater than 20 WPM.

Personally, I will make great efforts to remove as much chirp as possible...and I want NO 
clicks.

Minimizing chirp isn't really all that difficult for most rigs....even for the Conar.

Ken W7EKB


On 19 Aug 2024 at 21:21, sbjohnston--- via Milsurplus wrote:

> 
> Clicks can take up a lot of bandwidth so it is understandable that
> they would be of concern.  Same with hum on the carrier.  But chirp
> or yoop takes up only a little extra bandwidth and I've never felt it
> was too a big deal for routine contacts.  Actually helps discern one
> signal from another and gives character, right?  
> 
> I'd love to have a time machine to go back and hear how the bands
> sounded in the decades before I was a ham.  I bet they were more
> interesting than today. 
> 
> The only Official Observer card I ever received was for operating "out
> of band".  I was on 40m CW with my crystal controlled HW-16 and he
> was hearing me 455 or 910 kHz away from my actual frequency (I don't
> recall which).   
> 
> Even as a Novice I remember thinking that this seemed more likely a
> receiver problem on his end than a transmitter issue at my station. 
> I was in QSO with another station at the time the OO report mentioned,
> so clearly at least some of my energy was inside the band.
> 
> I set up my station to match my logged conditions of that date and
> time and listened with my Knight R-100 shortwave receiver (my only
> other piece of gear in those early days) for a spurious out of band
> signal - nothing heard.  It is not impossible that I had a spurious
> emission that he heard, but it would be a remarkable coincidence that
> it was 455 or 910 kHz from the main signal.
> 
> If he was having a receiver problem, I bet he wrote a lot of cards
> that day for all those stations he was hearing out of the band.
> 
> 
> Steve WD8DAS  
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