> -----Original Message----- > Thank you, Don, for your technical description as to what > might be happening. > > I have polished my straight key silver contacts and replaced > the diodes with 1N5821 Schottky diodes, but am still getting > the problem occasionally. >
David If you have many diodes available, then as a last resort you could try to match the diodes for forward voltage drop. It could be that differences here could result in slightly different turn-on times and upset the automatic hand-key detection. 73 Sverre LA3ZA http://www.qslnet.de/la3za/ _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com

