I have an interesting thing to figure out... I have a K3 and my amp is a TenTec Titan 425.
I was CQing DX on 160 CW today using semi break-in and a fellow came by and said I was generating key clicks. He came back and asked me to QSY to SSB and I looked for him but didn't find him. I went up in the band a bit to a local net with strong signals and asked if they'd listen to my signal for clicks. I sent CW and the answer came back my signal was fine, no issues. A KP4 said I had no clicks. So I went to the DX cluster to see what was on & there was a note from the fellow who asked me to QSY telling me where to meet him posted 20 minutes earlier. Not reaching him I sent him an email and he returned with a nice note saying the following when I said I don't have any key clicks: ******** "Hi Gary yes you do but it may be that you don't have enough delay in the amp there are a number of guys on the TB chat the heard it ..it only occurs on the dashes but at least 5 others heard in including a couple very knowledgeable guys that where the delay idea came from". ******** I called Elecraft tech for suggestions and the only thing we came up with was to change the Tx delay from 008 to something higher.. Before I do that, I wonder if there's any other ideas from the group as to what might be an issue. To recap and expand: I was using semi break in and sending around 22WPM using the memory keyer in the K3. As the it was semi-break-in, there was no relay on the amp that was being switched on or off in-between characters or even in-between words. The Titan amp is a QSK amp so it has no issue with fast relay turn- around times. When I transmit there are no apparent issues with feedback getting into the K3, no relay sounds from overload etc. I was transmitting with 45W into the Titan. The fellow said it was on the dashes that there are the clicks. Ideas? Thanks, Gary KA1J ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
