I just switched to a bug and sold all of my paddles, but not for that reason. The ground braid on the Kent single lever paddle was installed when I bought it. The twin lever paddle didn't have any braid.
Rick Dettinger K7MW On Jun 1, 2010, at 4:27 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Rick, > > Do you have any pictures of what you did? Or even more > elaboration? The same thing was happening on my rockmite 20 meter > altoid rig. > > Greg Doughty > > On Jun 1, 2010, at 7:04 PM, [email protected] wrote: > >> I, too, am using a Kent paddle. Thanks for the info. >> >> Greg Doughty >> >> On Jun 1, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Rick Dettinger <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I found that my K1 was very sensitive to having good electrical >>> contact. I had trouble with paddles that didn't have the bearings >>> bypassed. The same paddles worked fine with my K2. I think this >>> issue would be more likely with ball bearing paddles. I was using >>> Kent twin lever paddles. They were not bypassed like their single >>> lever model was. It used a small piece of braid to go from ground >>> to the bearing spindle. >>> >>> 73, >>> Rick Dettinger K7MW >>> >>> >>> On Jun 1, 2010, at 3:08 PM, [email protected] wrote: >>> >>>> Ok, radio is up but I am having an issue with my paddle. The dit >>>> side >>>> of the paddle will occasionally send dah dit instead of just a >>>> dit...suggestions? >>>> >>>> Greg Doughty >>>> ______________________________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
