Hi Ian, All Bugs have some amount of contact bounce. K3 does not have debounce circuitry. I use a debounce device between Bug and rig. Several can be found on the internet.
I made one: https://www.kn5l.net/debounce555/ John KN5L On 5/9/21 12:38 PM, IK4EWX wrote: > Dear friends, Elecraft K3S owners, now I am sure that the K3S is a CW > transceiver suitable only for the use of paddles with its internal keyer or > external pc keying. > I had already noticed with the Begali Intrepid bug that the K3S introduced > extra points that were not my manipulation errors. > Today, using a spectacular and magnificent Mecograph mod. 3 of 1908, > restored to maximum efficiency, in transmission at about 25 wpm, the > Elecraft K3S, both in qsk and in vox, generates a lot of errors in > transmission. It generate understandable CW. > The same bug used on a Ten Tec Corsair II and a Cubic 102BXA is instead > perfect, with an excellent cw and without any errors. > There is and has been certainly a problem with the key input circuit on the > K3S. > I hope that the same design and construction error will not happen again on > the K4 Elecraft. > Otherwise it will certainly not be a bug user transceiver. > It is a lot better an IC7300, which my friend IK4DCT uses with his two > Mecographs without any problems. > Ian IK4EWX ______________________________________________________________ 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
