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

[Rick Dettinger]

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, ki4bbl at cox.net 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, ki4bbl at cox.net wrote:
>
>> I, too, am using a Kent paddle.  Thanks for the info.
>>
>> Greg Doughty
>>
>> On Jun 1, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Rick Dettinger <k7mw78 at gmail.com> 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, 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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