Re: [Elecraft] Bizarre K2 keyer issue

2018-08-30 Thread Cameron Francey
et> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Bizarre K2 keyer issue It's the darndest thing - but I'll take it! I don't have the diodes. I don't have SSB, or a mic jack. So...I did the test with the shorted stereo plug. Everything worked fine. So then, I plugged in my paddles, and - everything worked fine. Hook

Re: [Elecraft] Bizarre K2 keyer issue

2018-08-28 Thread LL
It's the darndest thing - but I'll take it! I don't have the diodes. I don't have SSB, or a mic jack. So...I did the test with the shorted stereo plug. Everything worked fine. So then, I plugged in my paddles, and - everything worked fine. Hooked up my new delta loop, worked France with 5W, got

Re: [Elecraft] Bizarre K2 keyer issue

2018-08-28 Thread Fred Jensen
Don is your best source but ... any chance it got set to Iambic B and you're an Iambic A guy?  Iambic B adds elements that you don't actually send.  Just a thought. 73, Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW Sparks NV DM09dn Washoe County "Never iambicized" On 8/28/2018 1:08 PM, LL wrote: This is the

Re: [Elecraft] Bizarre K2 keyer issue

2018-08-28 Thread Drew AF2Z
At the risk of stating the obvious, check your key cable & plug. Sounds like it is intermittently shorting producing longer dahs & extra dits. 73, Drew AF2Z On 08/28/18 16:08, LL wrote: This is the weirdest thing ever. So my wonderful K2, #4442, was pressed into service once again, a few

Re: [Elecraft] Bizarre K2 keyer issue

2018-08-28 Thread Don Wilhelm
Lloyd, Do you have the 2 diodes to permit using a hand key in addition to paddles (auto-detect)? If so, try removing the diodes to see if it works - Turn off auto-detect. Do you have a microphone connected? If so, remove it on the possibility that there may be a mic problem with the PTT

[Elecraft] Bizarre K2 keyer issue

2018-08-28 Thread LL
This is the weirdest thing ever. So my wonderful K2, #4442, was pressed into service once again, a few months ago, after some needed TLC from Alan Wilcox. All was fine. In fact, it was all wonderful! So I just built a new antenna; got it up yesterday, it's a 40M full-wave Delta Loop. Hoping