Interesting stuff, Briyce! I have been using my Blue Racer on the K3 and have heard the occasional erratic dot. I thought it might be dirty contacts (it's an old bug).
What were you hearing that made you come up with the fix? The odd dot that I hear is not repeatable and not regular. Aloha and 73, John, WA6L (ex AH6CL) Bryce A. Carr-2 wrote: > > To get rid of the "dot" contact bounce, erratic sounding dots, that I > experienced I put a .22 microfarad across the keyline on K3 side of > keyline and a 10K resistor in series with the key line on the bug side of > the keyline. On a 2nd receiver my two bugs now sound like a electronic > keyer. > If you use a bug on the K2 you can try a 3300 ohm. > > <snip> > > Aloha, > Bryce, kh6at > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > 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 > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Mechanical-bug-contact-bounce-tp1089559p1091147.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
