Steve, I had a problem that sounded a lot like yours - At Elecraft's
suggestion, I sprayed my KXPD3 with De-oxit and the problem with
"missing" initial dits totally disappeared. I did not hae to
disassemble anything -- I just aimed and shot.
A few days later, I noticed that there was *still* an occasional
("random") delay (whether beginning with a dit or a dah) at the
beginning of a transmission. I was operating at those times through a
remote SGC autocoupler but had failed to "BYPASS" the internal KX3 ATU.
Wayne suggested that my ATU was "touching up" the match automatically;
trying to match my autocoupler. I went into the menu and bypassed the
ATU - problem solved.
There has been no reccurence of either of these issues since then.
73, Stan WB2LQF
www.wb2lqf.com
K1#2994 K2# 6980 K3#5244 KX1 #2411 KX3#0325 K9#1 (Cocoa
the Chihuahua)
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Steve KC8QVO wrote:
> I have been running all CW so far with my KX3 and have noticed there
> is a
> delay a lot of times on dits. When calling CQ there is a hesitation
> when
> sending my call between the dits in the V (KC8QVO) that makes it sound
> like
> KC8QE UO or KC8QI AO. The first few times it happened I thought I just
> wasn't used to the key, but it happens too much to be the key. My
> speed is
> set to 18wpm in iambic B mode.
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