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ki4bbl

K1 Woohoo, 2873 is up and on the air dit on iambic key

Ok, radio is up but I am having an issue with my paddle. The dit side
of the paddle will occasionally send dah dit instead of just a
dit...suggestions?

Greg Doughty
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Rick Dettinger-3

Re: K1 Woohoo, 2873 is up and on the air dit on iambic key

I found that my K1 was very sensitive to having good electrical
contact. I had trouble with paddles that didn't have the bearings
bypassed. The same paddles worked fine with my K2. I think this
issue would be more likely with ball bearing paddles. I was using
Kent twin lever paddles. They were not bypassed like their single
lever model was. It used a small piece of braid to go from ground to
the bearing spindle.

73,
Rick Dettinger K7MW

On Jun 1, 2010, at 3:08 PM, [hidden email] wrote:

> Ok, radio is up but I am having an issue with my paddle. The dit side
> of the paddle will occasionally send dah dit instead of just a
> dit...suggestions?
>
> Greg Doughty
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ki4bbl

Re: K1 Woohoo, 2873 is up and on the air dit on iambic key

I, too, am using a Kent paddle. Thanks for the info.

Greg Doughty

On Jun 1, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Rick Dettinger <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I found that my K1 was very sensitive to having good electrical
> contact. I had trouble with paddles that didn't have the bearings
> bypassed. The same paddles worked fine with my K2. I think this
> issue would be more likely with ball bearing paddles. I was using
> Kent twin lever paddles. They were not bypassed like their single
> lever model was. It used a small piece of braid to go from ground
> to the bearing spindle.
>
> 73,
> Rick Dettinger K7MW
>
>
> On Jun 1, 2010, at 3:08 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
>
>> Ok, radio is up but I am having an issue with my paddle. The dit
>> side
>> of the paddle will occasionally send dah dit instead of just a
>> dit...suggestions?
>>
>> Greg Doughty
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Greg
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ki4bbl

Re: K1 Woohoo, 2873 is up and on the air dit on iambic key

Rick,

Do you have any pictures of what you did? Or even more elaboration?
The same thing was happening on my rockmite 20 meter altoid rig.

Greg Doughty

On Jun 1, 2010, at 7:04 PM, [hidden email] wrote:

> I, too, am using a Kent paddle. Thanks for the info.
>
> Greg Doughty
>
> On Jun 1, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Rick Dettinger <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> I found that my K1 was very sensitive to having good electrical
>> contact. I had trouble with paddles that didn't have the bearings
>> bypassed. The same paddles worked fine with my K2. I think this
>> issue would be more likely with ball bearing paddles. I was using
>> Kent twin lever paddles. They were not bypassed like their single
>> lever model was. It used a small piece of braid to go from ground
>> to the bearing spindle.
>>
>> 73,
>> Rick Dettinger K7MW
>>
>>
>> On Jun 1, 2010, at 3:08 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, radio is up but I am having an issue with my paddle. The dit
>>> side
>>> of the paddle will occasionally send dah dit instead of just a
>>> dit...suggestions?
>>>
>>> Greg Doughty
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Rick Dettinger-3

Re: K1 Woohoo, 2873 is up and on the air dit on iambic key

I just switched to a bug and sold all of my paddles, but not for that
reason. The ground braid on the Kent single lever paddle was
installed when I bought it. The twin lever paddle didn't have any
braid.

Rick Dettinger K7MW

On Jun 1, 2010, at 4:27 PM, [hidden email] wrote:

> Rick,
>
> Do you have any pictures of what you did? Or even more
> elaboration? The same thing was happening on my rockmite 20 meter
> altoid rig.
>
> Greg Doughty
>
> On Jun 1, 2010, at 7:04 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
>
>> I, too, am using a Kent paddle. Thanks for the info.
>>
>> Greg Doughty
>>
>> On Jun 1, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Rick Dettinger <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>>> I found that my K1 was very sensitive to having good electrical
>>> contact. I had trouble with paddles that didn't have the bearings
>>> bypassed. The same paddles worked fine with my K2. I think this
>>> issue would be more likely with ball bearing paddles. I was using
>>> Kent twin lever paddles. They were not bypassed like their single
>>> lever model was. It used a small piece of braid to go from ground
>>> to the bearing spindle.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Rick Dettinger K7MW
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 1, 2010, at 3:08 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, radio is up but I am having an issue with my paddle. The dit
>>>> side
>>>> of the paddle will occasionally send dah dit instead of just a
>>>> dit...suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Greg Doughty
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