I have a KX3 and do mostly CW on the road with it. I have the KXPD3 paddle. I also had the intermittent keying operation with dits and dahs and did the mod to add the small wires to correct it. For the most part, that did fix it. However, recently I’ve noticed that the dah side gets screwy now and then, dit side seems ok. During FD, I had made about 90 contacts, and other then my operator errors, the paddle worked perfectly. I got up to get a drink, hit the head and came back for more operating. The KXPD3 immediately started acting up with incomplete dahs, dit side was just fine. NO one touched it and it only sat idle for 10 minutes or so. I was forced to break out the Bencher BY1 and was able to net another 30 contacts before hanging it up. Bencher worked fine (except for me on occasion).
I like the paddle, and really don’t want to drag the much bigger and heavier Bencher around with me on the portable operations.
I am at a loss to understand why it could do so well for so long, and then get weird.
Any suggestions or ideas? Elecraft? Anyone?
Thanks…
Jim Leder … K8CXM
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