I thought the proper way of indicating clicks is with the signal report - 579k. I haven't heard this used in years.
No one does that now, and they especially will not do it in a contest.
Remember all thise key click filter articles on the old QST?
Yeah, but they didn't do anything for over-the-air clicks. They eliminated key spark radiation, which was really just a local BCI issue. They won't do a thing for a modern rig, local or over the air.
Cleaning up transmitters with proper waveforms is actually relatively new. As a matter of fact the ARRL had the wrong waveform shown for a clean CW signal in all of their publications until just recently! Manufacturers only started with it in the past 10 years. For a large part, improvements have finally been made.
Also, what we notice depends a great deal on our local background noise and bandwidth used. Someone with an S8 background noise (and wide bandwidth that lets in a lot of noise power) is probably not going to notice what would be terrible with S1 background.
73 Tom
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