[Elecraft] [K3] CW Sidetone Pitch Change Problem

[Phil Hystad]

A while back I raised the question of whether others had the same symptoms I had been hearing of the CW sidetone pitch of a received signal all of a sudden changing by so-many Hz (maybe up to 50 Hz but just guessing).  It appears to happen when there is a slight pause in the senders signal and it almost sounds like some other station, a few Hz away has jumped into the party but that is not the case -- only a single station sending.

Several responses commented that they had heard the same thing whereas some others said they never heard this problem.

And, about two weeks ago or so someone sent me a message or maybe posted it to the Elecraft reflector asking if I still had the problem after installing the latest firmware (or, beta?).  I have lost that message and I would like to know if this problem was specifically addressed by a firmware update.  I am up to date on firmware with the exception of the latest beta that I have now installed yet.  However, I still have this problem (it seems to happen with stronger signals, maybe S8 or better, and it seems to only happen in the pause between words for example and never to my knowledge in a string of characters of a word).

73, phil, K7PEH