[Elecraft] K2 maiden flight

[Gary D Krause]

I've had my K2 for a few years now and it does the same thing as yours.  The 
power or key speed will pop up once in a while and then vanish.  It doesn't 
seem to hurt anything so, I've just ignored it.

Gary, N7HTS


On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:54:01 -0800 (PST)
  lstavenhagen <lstavenhagen at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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