Ken, Are your paddle contacts clean? Put a strip of paper between the contacts - close the contacts and slide the paper out. Not only will dirt stick to the paper, but the paper does a bit of gentle contact burnishing.
73, Don W3FPR On 2/25/2012 4:36 PM, Ken Wezeman wrote: > My K1 has started having a mind of its own. (It used to work just > fine. It is serial no. 1514 and has NEVER had a problem before.) I > started calling the other day and all of a sudden it sent a dah when it > finished sending a dit. I checked it out a bit and noticed that > occasionally it sent a dah when it hit the dit paddle also. I don't see > how it could be RF getting in. I cranked it down to 100 milliwatts and > ran it into a good dummy load and the problem did not change. And it > was no worse at 5 watts. Bypass caps on the key line didn't help. > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
