[Elecraft] Twitchy K2 output power...

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Have any of you have ever noticed occasional, unpredictable changes in
output power as you are keying your K2s?.....For example, occasionally
as I'm keying in a QSO I'll notice that the LED RF indicator has taken a
sudden, erratic big dive from its original setting of perhaps 5 to 10
watts, down to only 1 or 2 watts for no apparent reason.  No HI CUR
warnings are ever seen as this happens, just a sudden big dip in power
output....The problem is easily fixed by very SLIGHTLY tweaking (i.e.
barely moving it clockwise) of the POWER control.  That action restores
the original power setting--and in fact often raises it beyond its
original setting to an even higher level.....Steve Banks K0PQ


That's definitely NOT normal, Steve. I've never seen it in mine in 2+
years of operation. Sounds like maybe a noisy POWER control that's
fooling the control circuitry into thinking you turned the power way
down. 

Ron AC7AC
K2 # 1289