[Elecraft] Digital "scratching"

[Ron Willcocks]

Hi,
       I am sure this has been mentioned before, but I have a K2 here that 
makes quite a loud "digital scratching" as the dial is rotated , only on 
the bottom of 40m and with the antenna off. It is bad enough that if I try 
the old trick of using the weak tone generated at 7mhz to check if my 
filters are set so the received tone doesn't alter between filters, it 
actually modulates the tone and makes it useless to use.
In all other respects the set appears to be going fine, but perhaps someone 
can enlighten me as to whether I have a problem.

As another view to your CW debate that is raging at present. Here in NZ we 
have no CW test now either, and it hasn't altered the useage of CW anyway 
at all. In fact some new tickets are requesting help learning it. Whether 
we loose any "clout" in holding onto our frequencies is now a point of 
conjecture. Most of our MF bands probably aren't of much commercial 
interest ....we can just hope the IARU can hold them out if they do get 
interested. Our main problem down here is fishing boats being equipped with 
Amateur gear, and Indonesean "pirates" using Amateur gear for everything 
from running a taxi company to talking to Aunt Matilda......
It's not about loosing CW privileges.....it's all about loosing your Bands 
you should be worrying  about. Use em or loose em ....doesn't matter what 
mode. if the new chaps are green on the protocol it's up to us to 
straighten them out ( nicely).....
Cheers.......Ron ZL1TW


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