Mike, Try lightly burnishing the contacts on your key(s) by drawing a sheet of paper through the gap between the contacts while maintaining a slight amount of pressure on the contacts. Make a few passes with the paper, and try your key again to see if that helps.
73, Dale WA8SRA Mike Walsh wrote: > Hi, > > I can't get a straight key to work with my Flex-5000A. > > Every few elements the rig misses key closures or openings with the result > that, on the sidetone, dits turn to dahs, multiple elements get run > together, or elements are missed entirely. Every so often the sidetone > actually gets stuck on. Watching an external power/swr meter it looks like > the problem is not just with the sidetone, i.e. the transmitted signal is > doing the same thing as the sidetone. > > I'm running with the key plugged into the key input on the back of the rig > and "iambic" unchecked. I've tried three different straight keys. The > behavior happens with them all and none of them have such problems with my > other rig. The 5000a works OK with the internal keyer and paddles connected > to the same input -- no problems as described above. However, when I run > with an external keyer (WK USB) instead of the straight key the same kinds > or problems occur. Again, the external keyer has no problems with my other > rig. > > Anyone got any ideas? > > 73, > > Mike - ke5akl > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ > FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
