[Elecraft] K2 maiden flight

[lstavenhagen]

Hi all,

Made my first contact with my K2 this eve, N6OND, Skip out in San Francisco
(CA).
I have a random wire up in the apt and used my old MFJ tuner with it. I
"blew smoke" at 10 watts and the bottom of the rig was noticeably warm at
the end of the QSO, so I was really smokin'.... He gave me a 549 and towards
the end the QSB got me and ended it.  
The QRN was really bad on my end, so it was good he was using 150W with a
3el beam! (Ordered the NB module and T1 antenna tuner today, the NB should
knock some of this noise out).

Oh well, now it's just another ol used radio, hi hi...  ButI can tell I've
been inactive for 10 years. I had to back off the keyer to 13 wpm just to
send without mistakes every other word. My code copy is getting back up
fairly good just listening around the bands, I'm up to about 25wpm solid and
closing back in on 30wpm plain language and contest exchanges, but my
sending is just terrible. Really needs loads of practice. So I'll be working
on it with the Vox on TESt for a while ;).

One quick question. On a couple of occasions the keyer and power displays
have popped up momentarily on their own as if I'd turned the pots, but I
didn't touch them at the time. I was wondering if perhaps the pots just need
to be worked and are a little 'scratchy'? Just thought it was strange.
Anyone seen this before? Seems to be very rare so I'm not worried right now
about bad connections or anything like that.

Tnx es 73,
LS
W5QD
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