[Elecraft] K2 Condensation?

[jferg977 at aol.com]

K2 Colleagues,
My boat-board (alas, 36 feet does not make a ship) K2/100 with KAT100 
gives me info80 displays on chilly damp mornings.  It will step through 
the bands but it takes two taps to do it, one to change the band and 
then another to get rid of info80 and get the frequency display.

I checked the archives but could find only a single note about this 
problem and the gist of the comments were that that problem might have 
been a construction anomaly.  I have to assume that if this were an 
endemic problem, it would have showed up at field day or with the guys 
who camp out with these things.

Has anyone else expereinced this problem?

It's been suggested that I clean the interior of the radio-especially 
around the IC pins and look for any stray flux, etc. and then spray the 
entire interior with some sort of varnish made for this purpose.  I 
really don't want to do this, but am worried that I will ultimately 
have to deal with corrosion problems if I don't do something.  It has 
even been suggested that the problem is in the IC sockets and that I 
should replace them with gold-plated ones.

Any ideas?

John Ferguson  KI4NGH  M/V Arcadian now on the hard in Brick, NJ


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