[Elecraft] KX3 - CW glitch with KXPD3/keyer?

[stan levandowski]

Steve, I had a problem that sounded a lot like yours - At Elecraft's 
suggestion, I sprayed my KXPD3 with De-oxit and the problem with 
"missing" initial dits totally disappeared.  I did not hae to 
disassemble anything -- I just aimed and shot.

A few days later, I noticed that there was *still* an occasional 
("random") delay (whether beginning with a dit or a dah) at the 
beginning of a transmission.  I was operating at those times through a 
remote SGC autocoupler but had failed to "BYPASS" the internal KX3 ATU. 
Wayne suggested that my ATU was "touching up" the match automatically; 
trying to match my autocoupler.  I went into the menu and bypassed the 
ATU - problem solved.

There has been no reccurence of either of these issues since then.

  73, Stan WB2LQF
www.wb2lqf.com 
K1#2994    K2# 6980    K3#5244    KX1 #2411     KX3#0325     K9#1 (Cocoa 
the Chihuahua)



On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Steve KC8QVO wrote:

> I have been running all CW so far with my KX3 and have noticed there 
> is a
> delay a lot of times on dits. When calling CQ there is a hesitation 
> when
> sending my call between the dits in the V (KC8QVO) that makes it sound 
> like
> KC8QE UO or KC8QI AO. The first few times it happened I thought I just
> wasn't used to the key, but it happens too much to be the key. My 
> speed is
> set to 18wpm in iambic B mode.