[Elecraft] Re: Menus went away

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 08:19:29AM -0500, Kenneth E. Harker wrote:
>      I was thinking of getting the K60XV to add to my K2/100+KAT100, so 
> I was going through the online checklist to see what I needed to get, as 
> I have some of the required options (like the KPA100MODKT and KPA100SHLDKT) 
> already installed, but I don't know what versions of the various firmware 
> components I might need to upgrade...
> 
>      Well, I now seem to have no menus.  I push the menu button and it does 
> nothing.  Push and hold the menu button and it does nothing.  Everything else
> about the radio seems to work fine.  I haven't actually turned on the radio 
> in a month or maybe more, so I can't say when this actually happened.
> I can tell from power-up that I have CPU firmware 2.04A and IOC firmware 
> 1.07.
> 
>      Has anyone else seen this before?  Did that actual switch just fail on 
> me?  Is there a way to check that without desoldering it?  

After some investigation, it turns out that I had inadvertently plugged 
a mono cable (instead of a stereo cable/plug) into the keying jack on the 
back of the rig.  Unplugging the cable brought all the menus back.


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