[Elecraft] K1 Keyer Problem

[Mike Morrow]

Ken wrote:
> ...all of a sudden it sent a dah when it finished sending a dit.

Ron wrote:
> Perhaps you inadvertently changed the keyer mode in the Menu.  See 'Keyer
> Setup' in your Owner's manual.

In this respect, the iambic mode most likely to exhibit this behavior
is iambic mode B, which when sending an iambic string dit-dah-dit-dah-etc.
an extra dit will be sent if the paddles are released during a dah, or
an extra dah will be sent if the paddles are released during a dit.  When
iambic mode A is selected, if the paddles are released during a dah only
that dah is completed and keying stops.  If the paddles are released 
during a dit only that dit is completed and keying stops.

Why anyone would choose mode B, with its much more critical paddle timing
requirements compared to mode A, has never had an intelligent answer that
I've seen in 44 years as a Morse-using ham.  It's a system that many seem
to like for which no one is able to cite any advantage (except that most
incompetently- and carelessly-designed Asian-source rigs with iambic
keying allow *only* mode B).  Go figure!  :-)

There's no guarantee that being in mode B is your problem, of course.

73,
Mike / KK5F