[Elecraft] Can the K2's "8R HOLD" mode be madepermament?

[Martin]

John, Wayne,

there seems to be some confusion about Waynes query.

I think what he tried to find out is wether there is someone out there
in radioland running an application with the K2 that needs to
listen (iow switch to RX) during the QSK-Delay time of a K2 (iow while
K2 itself is in TX-mode) -and _can_not_ receive anything due to the
qsk-delay
time-.

What kind of application could that be? Someone out there?

If there is nobody, 8R Hold could be made permanent/save code/minimize
calls
for support.
 
> 
> I hope you missed something Martin.  Otherwise, it sounds like a bad idea
> to me.  I quite often set the keyer speed to 20wpm or so and use the
> "dit" to tune up my amplifier.  (much less duty cycle than the
> "TUNE" button)  If I understand (or misunderstand) the same you do, this
> will cause my AMP to key/unkey with every "dit".  I can see this seriously
> reducing the Mean Time Between Failure on the keying relay in the AMP.

No ,John, I understood exactly what Wayne was asking.
> 
> Someone please tell me that we've misunderstood what was being asked.
> 
> 73 de John - KC4KGU

73 de Martin
DL1iAQ