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Loud steady clicking on TX

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DAN
Feb 23, 2008
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A local dump truck driver seems to be having quite the issues. He drives through town 20 times a day, running his 100 watt mouth the whole way.

The problem: on TX he has a steady, rapid ticking/clicking noise. Very loud and bleeds across all channels, and I suspect, beyond.

Even when he’s talking on 19 and showing an s4 or so on my radio, the ticking completely wipes out my receive on 38lsb.

What in the world am I hearing??

His buddies apparently don’t hear it, and think he sounds great...haha.
 

If he was on SSB I would say his amplifier has no SSB delay so the relay just clicks constantly. If he's an AM'er hard to say, probably has something way overtuned and outta whack.
 
Is he collector modulating the finals with fuel injector noise? Have him rev the engine while keyed up and see if it changes.
 
Maybe. I’ve heard a lot of crap over the years, but this one is something else.

Always amazes me how and people can screw up a radio. I remember years ago there was a local fellow that ran a galaxy of some sort with every imaginable “tune” done to it, into a fairly large tube amp, a maxed out d104, and an Antron. I would hate to have been a neighbor, because he plastered every channel in town all night long, and I bet you couldn’t pick up a corded telephone without hearing him. I never heard a radio that sounded more like he was at the bottom of a well screaming into a tin can. And yet, no one wanted to tel him he sounded like garbage. Lol.

It really sucked, because I always liked working DX late in the evening looking for those weak signals, and he too wiped out the whole 40.
 
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dledinger said:
Always amazes me how and people can screw up a radio. I remember years ago there was a local fellow that ran a galaxy of some sort with every imaginable “tune” done to it, into a fairly large tube amp, a maxed out d104, and an Antron. I would hate to have been a neighbor, because he plastered every channel in town all night long
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I think that guy lives near me. :LOL:

The magic combination it a super tweaked and tuned radio driving some type of small shit box amp you call a modulator, driving a sweep tube amp that already has a built in driver.

The final tubes in the amp should be making at least 250 watts each. If they aren't you need to buy more swing, bigger mosfets or something.
 
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A couple trends I saw here some 20 years back...always brought me chuckles:

1. Removing the headliner and making a copper wire “spiderweb” inside the roof a car.

2. Running ground wires off all the equipment in the car and into a five gallon bucket of rock salt with a section of copper pipe in it.
 
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dledinger said:
A local dump truck driver seems to be having quite the issues. He drives through town 20 times a day, running his 100 watt mouth the whole way.

The problem: on TX he has a steady, rapid ticking/clicking noise. Very loud and bleeds across all channels, and I suspect, beyond.

Even when he’s talking on 19 and showing an s4 or so on my radio, the ticking completely wipes out my receive on 38lsb.

What in the world am I hearing??

His buddies apparently don’t hear it, and think he sounds great...haha.
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This probably isn't "it", but, back in the 90's my buddy had an issue with his 2950 whenever I was fairly close by and forgot to turn off my amp. He complained about a ticking noise in his receiver that went away when I turned the amp off.
 
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