[Elecraft] Re: After CW transmit K2 receiver is muted.

[Arato Andras]

Dear Tom,

sorry for our strong KFKI spam filter. I am now on GPRS connection so it 
would be difficult to mark your address in my exception list. That is why 
I am answering you here on the list. As you could see my second mail, my 
K2 seems working well now with good RF ground, nevertheless, I am still 
interested in your explanation.

Your questions and my answers follow:

1) Does the K2 truly 'mute'? Or can you hear VERY STRONG signals
weakly? And can you hear the CW sidetone when it is 'muted'?

It sounded like no antenna cable is connected. I could hear the sidetone 
at key down.

2) Does this occur on a specific band? Or does it occur on ANY band?

This happened on all bands. Even switching to other bands the 'mute state' 
did not change.

3) You state that the "HI REFLECTED" message appears "while receiver
is muted"... safe to assume that the message ONLY appears during TX
and NOT during RX mode?

The "HI REFLECTED" message appeared during CW transmission only, after a 
short pause when the 'mute state' happened, or when I wanted to clear that 
state with short key down.

4) You state that the problem occurs with/without the KAT100. DO you
mean that you have actually REMOVED the KAT100 from the K2 and the
problem is still present? Or than you have only set KAT100 to CAL
mode (so it does not attempt to tune) and the message still appears?

I removed the KAT100 at all, and the problem came too.

73! de Andras HA4AA.