[Elecraft] K1 Keyer Problem

[Don Wilhelm]

Ken,

Are your paddle contacts clean?  Put a strip of paper between the 
contacts - close the contacts and slide the paper out.  Not only will 
dirt stick to the paper, but the paper does a bit of gentle contact 
burnishing.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 2/25/2012 4:36 PM, Ken Wezeman wrote:
> My K1 has started having a mind of its own.  (It used to work just
> fine.  It is serial no. 1514 and has NEVER had a problem before.)  I
> started calling the other day and all of a sudden it sent  a dah when it
> finished sending a dit.  I checked it out a bit and noticed that
> occasionally it sent a dah when it hit the dit paddle also.  I don't see
> how it could be RF getting in.  I cranked it down to 100 milliwatts and
> ran it into a good dummy load and the problem did not change.  And it
> was no worse at 5 watts.  Bypass caps on the key line didn't help.
>