[Elecraft] KX3 sluggish keyer

[Nr4c]

I think the ends of the pins are different. Make sure both are pointed in same direction. 

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...nr4c. bill


> On Jul 7, 2014, at 7:23 AM, Gerry leary <gerryleary99 at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
> One of the problems with the paddle is that the arms can move up and down to much.  Sometimes my contacts don't touch correctly unless I force the dit arm down.  A better job of drilling and machineing of the holes that the arms pivit in would fix the problem.  My dit arm has over 150 thousense of an inch of up and down movement.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone this time 
> 
>> On Jul 6, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Sven Ladegast <sven at ladegast.info> wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Bill,
>> 
>>> The problem, according to my own experience, is that the ground in
>>> intermittent. Each paddle arm is the ground that makes contact with each
>>> standoff.
>> 
>> Well I recognized this problem too and ended up putting an soldering eyelet under each spring retainer screw. I soldered small bus wire to the eyelets and soldered the other ends directly to the GND pad of the 4-pin connector.
>> 
>> This seems to work very good whereas clearing the ATU memories prevents the keyer from interrupting your transmission when the ATU is recalling old memory settings and you have used another antenna before.
>> 
>> Anyway...I did a lot of QSOs with this modification and still have problems here and there. It seems like the key doesn't like me! :) Some days I need to correct every few words and other days the key is working fine.
>> 
>> I have no such problems when using my old Ten Tec model 604 key with built-in keyer. So it should not be my keying itself...
>> 
>> Anyhow...I am living with that issue at the moment. Maybe I will upgrade to a Begali Adventure but at the moment the modified stock key is not bothering me too much to pay another $350 for a new key.
>> 
>> Anyhow, the KXPD3 is still great bang for the buck and fits nicely to the rig.
>> 
>> vy 73!
>> 
>> Sven, DJ2AT
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