Greetings from Down Under. With the help and encouragement of the NZ K2 guru Ron, ZL1TW, I have finally got on the air with K2 Nr 3029. Getting back on air after 40 years I decided to learn iambic keying so have used my K2 in test mode often for practise. I find that on some occasions when I have closed both paddles at "exactly" the same time and held them squeezed I get a steady tone rather than alternating dots and dashes.
I can repeat this in operating mode and have confirmed that power is being delivered into a dummy load like if a straight key was held down. Needless to say it does not happen very often and is an operator error which I correct, but wondered if others had experienced this too? I have found that by pointing both index fingers at the paddles, one on either side then aiming to push them together simultaneously is a way of effecting this and even then it will take maybe 10 or so tries to make it happen. (BTW this is not how I send ;-)) My K2 has firmware 2.03d 1.07. has the Temp-compensation PLL mod fitted but not the Keying bandwidth mod. Installed are KNB2, KAF2 and KAT2. InP = PDLn, Iab = b and the keyer is set to 15wpm. Regards 73s, Nigel ZL2DF _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
