I have the AA0ZZ keyer just about finished except for the decal/label and one other little detail.
I thought I was all finished with construction - plopped the three AAA batteries in, only to have the keyer give out a stream of constant "3"s. It turns out that the momentary push button that I have for keyer memory three is a "normally closed" switch instead of "normally open". I didn't quite catch that as I was rummaging through the junk box at the Hamfest last week. Looks like I will have to go to Radio Shack tomorrow evening and buy a package of "normally open" ones. Gosh, I hope they have some!
72 de Larry W2LJ
Can you take a 2N2222, put something like a 1k resistor from +12V to the base, put the switch on the base to ground, the emitter to ground, and the collector to the keyer to invert it?
ReplyDeleteThat would undoubtedly work; but another trip through the junk box paid off and I found the last remaining switch that I needed!
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