There were 1-2 Yaesu radios that did not have the after-market key click mod and were causing tremendous unnecessary QRM to other WRTC stations. Those radios were detected in the Friday setup period and swapped out to eliminate the QRM.
The 65 WRTC sites (only 59 actually used) were spread out over a distance of 80 miles, from the southern NH border to the entrance to Cape Cod in southern MA. There were some clusters of sites where 15 or so WRTC stations were located just a couple thousand yards from each other. The 100 watt power limit helped a bit, too. Ed W0YK -------------------------------------------------------- Fred K6DGW wrote: The one factor that using different radios does not control for is spurious emissions such as key clicks and phase noise. There *is* a wide difference in those between the radios. Don't know if that would turn out to be an issue in the WRTC environment, although I sure know it was when my "neighbor" Jack, KF6T, was running a Yaesu rig with serious phase noise problems. Of course, if clicks and phase noise was an issue at WRTC, it would impact everyone else negatively. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
