Mike, The noise blanker in my Icom R75 has the same effect on strong signals, and I did much the same detective work when W1VD and I began regular CW QSO's last year. I probably used the same expleti
As a cautionary tale to others, here is how I wasted an hour this afternoon. I had just unbent my antenna after the recent high winds, and was tuning it up with some RF. At the end of my transmission