[Elecraft] RE: K2 drops receive level

[Don Wilhelm]

Al and all,

Contrary to your speculation, there is nothing in the control section
('flow of info on data bus') that would  cause your problem.

The beauty of digital signals is that they either work or they do not
work - there is no in between state.

Most intermittent problems are due to an unsoldered connection.  They 
can work fine for several years only to raise their ugly heads at the 
most inappropriate time.  The relays rarely fail because they are the 
type with wiping (self cleaning) contacts - but once in a great while I 
do find a bad one.

The only answer I know is that you must hunt carefully for that elusive 
bad connection - sometimes it can be narrowed down to a single stage and 
the rest will be easy, but often that is difficult until you can 
reliably re-create the failure.  Any troubleshooting must be done while 
it is *not* working properly, and that is why I *hate* intermittents.

73,
Don W3FPR


AJSOENKE at aol.com wrote:
> Maybe, but I experience the same phenom and do the same thing with key, It  
> hasn't really been an issue, though. Would be interesting to know what does it  
> though, I suspected something to do with the flow of info on data bus.  I'd  
> rule out antenna connection in my case because I have seen it on both ants and 
>  all bands and power settings. I'd bet a slight tweak on a NB or AGS setting 
> or  delay setting may clear it up.
>  
> Anyone around who knows the system that can explain it?
>  
> AL WA6VNN