[Elecraft] K-POD Button Switches Intermittently triggering the wrong macro

[Steve Lund]

Let me know your solution as my KPOD has the same problem.

The buttons on the K3 always work as expected, but the KPOD buttons don't.
A real pain in cw pileups.

Steve, K6UM

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 3:55 PM hawley, charles j jr <c-hawley at illinois.edu>
wrote:

> I posted this on Elecraft .io but will try here as well...
>
> I love this K-Pod, BUT I’ve sort of worn out 3 of them. The symptom is
> that the most used buttons get noisy and trigger another macro from another
> address. When I had the first one do that, I did extensive testing to
> eliminate rf noise, etc.
> And a new unit however proved to work perfectly...for about 4 months. When
> it started doing the same thing Elecraft said it was highly unlikely and
> especially twice to the same guy, but they sent me another one anyway.
> Great company!
> Now that one after a year is doing it again. I rearranged the macros to
> different buttons of the two macros I mostly use, and it works flawlessly
> again for me. I doubt that Elecraft will keep sending me these things, but
> maybe I’m missing something. But all I can come up with is noisy switches,
> double triggering. No switch bounce protection?
> I notice now on the Elecraft site that there are PC boards available for
> about $120. Almost doable if the switches are not available separately, and
> less expensive than the $290 for a new unit.
> Has anyone come up with a part # for the original switches?
> Elecraft...?
>
> Chuck Hawley
>  c-hawley at illinois.edu
>
>  Amateur Radio, KE9UW
>  aka Jack, BMW Motorcycles
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