Well, I opened the KX3, removed the top/bottom flex connector and the
battery connector to give best
access to J9 with the bottom removed and put aside.
I cleaned up a fine iron, and re-soldered the four J9 connections to
PCB, leaving the paddle fixed in place.
I put it all back together, and now the paddle send is perfect, better
than expected.
So as others have found, the J9 solder connections to the PCB were flawed..
Happy Camper here now.
73
Adrian Fewster
On 24/11/20 5:38 am, Adrian wrote:
Kent, yes and the KXPD3 is brand new just received from Elecraft,
which has the new wired paddle design.
I think that is ok, but I suspect a connection issue via J9 > pcb, or
a keyer fault.
Adrian Fewster
On 24/11/20 5:16 am, K9ZTV wrote:
Are you using the little Elecraft paddle attached to the rig? If so,
there is a known grounding issue in early paddles.
Kent K9ZTV
On Nov 22, 2020, at 11:16 PM, Adrian <vk4...@gmail.com> wrote:
Kent yes i did try that. I prefer Iambic A as Petr does, his
experience is identical to mine.
I had tried iambic B previous to your advice with no change, and i
don't use squeeze keying in any case. this is testing at 15 wpm.
The issue is random, and sometimes I can nearly get through a CQ
without it messing up.
On my Yaesu rigs, same procedure, I have no issue and the send is
perfect heard & tested with cwget monitor.
On the KX3 I can tap for a dah and sometimes get a dit-dat-dit or
dah-dit. When sending the 4 in my call I often get a dit after the
last dah.
or a dah-dit on the T.
How the right paddle can produce a dit is beyond me. Left is set dit.
I have played with weight and delay settings also to no avail.
Thankyou for your response.
73
Adrian Fewster
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