I'll check that out sometime. I only took it partially apart so that I could understand it. I only have trouble with dits once in a while, and I am not using C.W. a lot. I do really appreciate the paddle and the thought that has gone into it. Mine has been very forgiving and durible. I like that there are no wires involved to use it.
Sent from my iPhone this time > On Jul 7, 2014, at 8:00 AM, Nr4c <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]
