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-haw...@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-haw...@illinois.edu > > Amateur Radio, KE9UW > aka Jack, BMW Motorcycles > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to k6um.el...@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
