Interesting that these RF issues with the Touchkeyer appear on this group while they hardly have been mentioned in the eham reviews. Own experience is similar, and was put as
"…. Also, I find both the P1 and P6 to be sensitive to RF (in the shack...). There may be something specific and imperfect with my modest station set-up, but when I transmit with more than 60 watts, the paddles get unruly, stop responding and generate random unwanted di-dah combinations, and the P1-keyer enters into a sequence of repeated restarts, issuing the "FB"-response. I have parked the touch paddles for the time being and stick with paddles from Kent and Palm (mini) to feed either rig internal or K1EL external keyers." (Full review at http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/5360?page=2 ) Following this can be mentioned that a combined anniversary and Xmas present now has made me the proud owner of a Begali Graciella key. What a touch and what a difference from the Kent! HNY & 73 Chris / LA8OM On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Stephen Roberts <steve...@shoreham.net>wrote: I to have had similar issues with the PF2 touch keyer. For whatever reason, > it is unusable in my shack as it is currently set up. It works just perfect > for a while, then goes haywire. Others swear by it and it does have a very > interesting "action". You almost get the sensation that the finger pieces > are moving when you touch them. A very interesting paddle option. > > Steve > W1SFR > > > On Jan 5, 2013, at 11:14 PM, David Dunn wrote: > > > There is little doubt that this key, particularly in Kit form is value > for > > money indeed. > > BUT I have built one which works beutifully in my VK shack, where the > > antennas are in the clear and Coax fed > > > > In my small QTH at G3SCD where the antennas are also coax fed but very > low > > and close to the shack, I cannot overcome (yet) the problems of RF > getting > > back to the keyer and making it quite useless. Toroids, ferrites chokes > > etc have been tried with little change > > It is intersting to note that there I have what I call a decent earth and > > in VK virtually no earth. > > Also in UK 100 watt is my max with the K3 alone. > > 73 David > > VK3DBD/G3SCD > > ______________________________________________________________ > * * ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
