[Elecraft] K1 Woohoo, 2873 is up and on the air dit on iambic key

[Rick Dettinger]

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, ki4bbl at cox.net 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
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