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(Forwarding this to the GSN mailing list for help)


Thank you, Tom, for catching the key clicks during early 4RN
last night.  For those of you on the GSN list, Tom heard clicks
from my transmission on 3563 all the way up at 3673.  Ouch.

FWIW, I was using the FT-847 that I always use, at the 100
watts that I always use, with the keyer I always use (although I 
did have to reattach the keyer after the contest weekend.  Be 
advised, all--Yaesu has a paddle convention that is the reverse
of the rest of the world.  If you plug a right-handed CW paddle
directly into the rig and use the internal keyer, you will get dahs from the left paddle and dits from the right.  I rediscovered this
the hard way during early GSN last night.).

The one thing different from my normal setup was that I used
the G5RV we installed over the weekend instead of the normal
75-meter dipole, which for some reason will no longer match
with the 847's tuner at the GSN and 4RN frequencies (probably
for the same reason we couldn't use it with the amp during
Sweepstakes).

I also used the G5RV during late 4RN and GSN.  Question for
the folks on late GSN:  did any of you notice the same problem
during the late net?  If so, obviously the problem still exists, and
I need to fix it.  If not, then I need to figure out what I did 
during the late nets that I didn't during the early ones.

73 de KU4WJ

Brennan Price, 404 607-9045 (work)
Georgia News Network, Atlanta Falcons Radio Network