Rick,

Do you have any pictures of what you did?  Or even more elaboration?   
The same thing was happening on my rockmite 20 meter altoid rig.

Greg Doughty

On Jun 1, 2010, at 7:04 PM, ki4...@cox.net wrote:

> I, too, am using a Kent paddle.  Thanks for the info.
>
> Greg Doughty
>
> On Jun 1, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Rick Dettinger <k7m...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I found that my K1 was very sensitive to having good electrical
>> contact.  I had trouble with paddles that didn't have the bearings
>> bypassed.  The same paddles worked fine with my K2.  I think this
>> issue would be more likely with ball bearing paddles.  I was using
>> Kent twin lever paddles.  They were not bypassed like their single
>> lever model was.  It used a small piece of braid to go from ground
>> to the bearing spindle.
>>
>> 73,
>> Rick Dettinger  K7MW
>>
>>
>> On Jun 1, 2010, at 3:08 PM, ki4...@cox.net wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, radio is up but I am having an issue with my paddle.  The dit
>>> side
>>> of the paddle will occasionally send dah dit instead of just a
>>> dit...suggestions?
>>>
>>> Greg Doughty
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