Re: OT - 6 meter beacon clicks followup ????
Posted by
Rick Stealey on
Jun 11, 2012; 12:58pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/OT-6-meter-beacon-clicks-followup-tp7557465p7557470.html
On his listing on QRZ.com it indicates he is running an FT690 and a "homebrew" GE amplifier
for his beacon. Both are bad news. Yaesu's are not known for having clean keying, and running
it into a (presumably) class C amplifier would make it worse.
He sure thinks he is doing the ham fraternity a good deed, well intentioned. He is
just highly uninformed from a technical standpoint.
Suggestion - you MIGHT ask him if he would run a test with you and run the rig barefoot.
If that cleans it up then you at least have something to discuss with him on a technical
level - the possible replacement of the amp.
It doesn't look like he has much modern equipment. Any way you might talk him into
replacing the old Yaesu with a K3? (yeah, right).
GL
Rick K2XT
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