[Elecraft] K2 keying question

[Alan Davenport]

Are you perhaps using a straight key and a MONO plug? I experienced this with mine until I replaced the mono plug with a stereo plug. It seems the K2 doesn't like The ring and ground connections shorted. (As a mono plug obviously does.)
 
   73 de Al, W2GZN

--- On Wed, 4/13/11, Ian Liston-Smith <ian.ls at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:


From: Ian Liston-Smith <ian.ls at hotmail.co.uk>
Subject: [Elecraft] K2 keying question
To: "Elecraft List" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 8:24 PM



Two questions - both may be due to incorrect set up so please bear with me...

1) Just tried to use the K2 and first key stroke put it into tx mode and would not 'un-key' unless switched off and switched back on. I found that once re-set in this way, if I changed the mode switch to something else then to CW, this cleared it and it's now ok. It's not done this before. Any ideas?

2) I have noticed that the first key stroke after switch on produces little if any RF for about half a second, or until the next dot or dash. I have often noticed this, though put it down to some error in set-up. But since I have now just had the first problem, I thought I'd ask about this one now.

Thanks and regards,

Ian, G4JQT
                          
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