I can guess at 2 possibilities - one is that there was something sticky
on the shell of that mono plug which adhered to the wiper in the paddle
jack - it only takes a bit of something like the adhesive from
electrical tape to do that.
The second is that somewhere along the dash signal line,
MGFoster Wrote:
I turned on the K1 tested to see if the problem still existed - it
did. Turned off the K1 unplugged, exposed the bottom of the RF
board. Powered up inserted a bent component lead into the Dits
Ground - OK. The same on the Dash Ground - OK! Plugged the paddles
back in it
I'm in the process of building a K1, I'll be sure to check the key
jack carefully. I guess it would be best to wire the straight key,
which is all I use for now, to a stereo plug anyway.
73 de Joseph Durnal NE3R
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:22 AM, crstrode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
MGFoster
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I changed my Inp from Pdn to Hnd to test out my hand key. When I
changed back to Pdn only the Dits side responds. The Dah side doesn't
produce anything (yes, the paddle works outside the K1).
While in Hnd mode I plugged in my hand key with a mono
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Brett Howard wrote:
What happens if you use the test points next to the connector? Open
the box
up and just use a paper clip or test lead to short them to the ground
pad
there and let us know what happens then.
I turned on the K1 tested to
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