I think the ends of the pins are different. Make sure both are pointed in same direction.
Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill > On Jul 7, 2014, at 7:23 AM, Gerry leary <[email protected]> wrote: > > One of the problems with the paddle is that the arms can move up and down to > much. Sometimes my contacts don't touch correctly unless I force the dit arm > down. A better job of drilling and machineing of the holes that the arms > pivit in would fix the problem. My dit arm has over 150 thousense of an inch > of up and down movement. > > Sent from my iPhone this time > >> On Jul 6, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Sven Ladegast <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello Bill, >> >>> The problem, according to my own experience, is that the ground in >>> intermittent. Each paddle arm is the ground that makes contact with each >>> standoff. >> >> Well I recognized this problem too and ended up putting an soldering eyelet >> under each spring retainer screw. I soldered small bus wire to the eyelets >> and soldered the other ends directly to the GND pad of the 4-pin connector. >> >> This seems to work very good whereas clearing the ATU memories prevents the >> keyer from interrupting your transmission when the ATU is recalling old >> memory settings and you have used another antenna before. >> >> Anyway...I did a lot of QSOs with this modification and still have problems >> here and there. It seems like the key doesn't like me! :) Some days I need >> to correct every few words and other days the key is working fine. >> >> I have no such problems when using my old Ten Tec model 604 key with >> built-in keyer. So it should not be my keying itself... >> >> Anyhow...I am living with that issue at the moment. Maybe I will upgrade to >> a Begali Adventure but at the moment the modified stock key is not bothering >> me too much to pay another $350 for a new key. >> >> Anyhow, the KXPD3 is still great bang for the buck and fits nicely to the >> rig. >> >> vy 73! >> >> Sven, DJ2AT >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
