[Elecraft] K2 damage

[Phil Wheeler]

Kevin,

My guess it is a menu issue of some sort. I would exhaust that 
possibility (or even do a master reset ... since reloading params does 
not take that long) before melting solder.

73, Phil

Kevin Rock wrote:

>   I took my K2/100 with all the peripherals to the SeaPac hamfest to assist Lisa with the Elecraft booth.   All was well with my K2/100 and with my LDG AT11-MP tuner 
>while at the hamfest.  Unknown to me at the time was the fact the K2 had been set to use a transverter while I  was away from the booth.  The transverter was not 
>attached but the menu setting for the transverter had been set to on to show a prospective customer how it  could be done.  When I got my rig home this afternoon I 
>found the strange setting and turned it off.  The problem lies with my sidetone.  I don't have one any longer.   I went to St L in the menu and hit display and found the 
>result was U6-25.  I reset this to  U8-4.  I then turned off the rig, waited, and turned it back on.  No  sidetone.  Went back into St L and hit display.  It was again set 
>to U5-25.  I reset this to U8-4.  Repeat this cycle 20 or 30 times.  Still no sidetone. 
>
> I took the rig apart and pressed all the socketed chips and  reseated all of the pin connections between all of the boards.  Put the rig back together and proceeded 
>through the St L reset repeat loop.  Still no sidetone.  I  listen on a neighboring rig and I know I am transmitting a tone but there is no sidetone to assist me in sending.  
>