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

[ws6x.ars at gmail.com]

Please put me on the list for info about a solution to these K-POD switches.
I have several with the same intermittent behavior.
Thanks,
Jim - WS6X 

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of hawley, charles j jr
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2020 10:55 AM
Subject: [Elecraft] K-POD Button Switches Intermittently triggering the
wrong macro

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