I can guess at 2 possibilities - one is that there was something sticky
on the shell of that mono plug which adhered to the wiper in the paddle
jack - it only takes a bit of something like the adhesive from
electrical tape to do that.
The second is that somewhere along the dash signal line, you have a bad
solder connection that made contact when it was touched. If you have
trouble again, I suggest checking the schematic for everything connected
to the dash signal (including connectors) and re-flow the solder.
73,
Don W3FPR
MGFoster wrote:
I turned on the K1 & tested to see if the problem still existed - it
did. Turned off the K1 & unplugged, & exposed the bottom of the RF
board. Powered up & inserted a bent component lead into the Dits &
Ground - OK. The same on the Dash & Ground - OK! Plugged the paddles
back in & it worked OK.
OK, so what happened there?
Thanks,
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