LOL Well, he looks like a real nice guy, nice QRZ page. You didn't mention his call/name, so I won't either (after the recent foofaraw about "outing" somebody), but finding out who he is doesn't take a rocket scientist. :-)
Does he know you're hearing clicks from his beacon transmitter? He seems to be a very active and public ham in your area, so I'm sure he'd like to know. He says on his QRZ page that everything in his shack is Icom, so I assume that includes the beacon radios -- though he doesn't say specifically what those transmitters are. (He has a beacon on 2m also.) I played around with converting an old low-band FM radio into a 6m beacon a few years ago, and I never could get the key clicks out of it no matter how I tried to key it. The ARRL Handbook "suggested" a rather elaborate keying/shaping circuit with multiple semiconductor devices, and I wasn't up for going to that level of complexity, so I just gave up on the project. (I know, shame on me.) Key clicks can be a bear to get rid of -- but I haven't specifically heard of any Icom radios having a bad key click problem like many Yaesu radios are known to. Others may know otherwise; I've never owned any Icom radios besides an IC-22 in the early 1970s. :-) Bill W5WVO -------------------------------------------------- From: "Steve Ellington" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 5:51 PM To: "callen1155" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] cw 'clicking' ?? > wire cutters > > Steve > N4LQ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "callen1155" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 7:27 PM > Subject: [Elecraft] cw 'clicking' ?? > > >> >> >> Hello folks. >> >> I have a fellow ham a mile down the road that is running a 6 meter cw >> beacon >> at 100 watts. His transmit freq is 50.060 MHz. With my K3 (stock 2,7k >> filter >> only) I hear his 'clicking' at 50.125 MHz while listening for SSB >> activity. >> My antenna is a random length dipole (about 200 feet long). >> >> Is this 'clicking' normal and is there a solution to eliminate it? >> >> thanks. >> chuck >> af4xk >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/cw-clicking-tp5011614p5011614.html >> Sent from the [K3] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
