[Elecraft] KX1 - Intermittent Keying Problem

Dennis Payton Dennis Payton" <[email protected]
Tue Dec 16 08:20:20 2003


I finished building my KX1 last night, and everything went well. After the
final alignment and test though, I went to play with the paddle,
transmitting into a dummy load, and it immediately began acting up. It would
mute the receiver, but would send only a dit or a few erratic dahs. I turned
the power off & on, then it worked fine.

This morning, the same thing happened. I listened around on the bands for a
while after I woke up, but when I tried to transmit, I had to turn the power
off & on first. I didn't think to check the output when this happened, but
it puts out a good clean waveform when it's keying properly. I don't have
the 30-meter and tuner options installed yet.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,

Denny Payton, N9JXY
Auburn, IN