[Elecraft] K2, WriteLog, and NAQP

[Craig Rairdin]

I don't get on the air much but do enjoy working the major contests. Last
weekend I fired up the K2 and WriteLog and worked the full 10 hours of NAQP.
The K2 did a great job; its little fan fired up on cue during long sessions
of transmitting but otherwise no complaints. WriteLog did its normal job of
being obtuse and confusing but worked great except for three times when it
lost comm with the K2 and I had to exit and re-launch the program to get it
back. It could talk to the K2 but apparently wasn't getting frequency
updates. 

I talk to the K2 through the microHAM microKEYER via a USB port on my
computer using the microHAM software that makes WriteLog think I have a
bunch of serial ports. I use the WinKey keyer that's in the microKEYER. 

The comm losses seemed to happen at times when I was switching between
WriteLog and its keyboard window with ALT-K or switching back to WriteLog
from the keyboard window. If anyone has found the secret to making it work
right all the time, let me know. And if anyone has any insight into why
WriteLog has to be so freakishly difficult to configure (hundreds of
settings can only be adjusted by editing an INI file in your Windows
directory) that might be interesting, too. :-)

Craig
NZ0R
K1 #1966
K2/100 #4941
KX1 #1499
KX1 #1541 (still in the box)