I hope that a lot of you got out to enjoy field day with your Elecraft rigs. High band propagation on Saturday afternoon was just so-so, and the low bands were very noisy last night; but I had a good time with my K2 anyway. I operated in class 1B with the K2 connected to a deep cycle battery and a solar panel. My non-ham XYL wanted to help with duping, so I operated SSB at about 50 watts out. All seemed ok until about midnight PST when the K2 started locking up in transmit mode, every time I keyed the mic. I had to turn the rig off to get it to recover. The voltage readout in the K2 said about 12.V in receive and 11.2V during transmit. The antenna match was reasonable. I fooled around with it for a few minutes without success, then decided that I had listened to enough QRN on 40 meters, so I went to bed. In the morning, I made one QSO beforte it started locking up in transmit mode. I swapped in a fresh battery, but the same thing happened. I got some tea and came back to it. After fussing with all of the power leads, it started to work again and continues to do so. What could have caused the behavior?
Also, if I am tuning around and then turn off the rig for a few minutes; turning it back on causes the rig to revert to a different frequency then it was on when turned off - usually to a frequency that had been on the display previously (maybe for 5 or 10 minutes). I haven't used my K2 that much lately (except to drive an XV50 transverter), but I don't remember that behavior. Any suggests? Do I need to RTFM? :) Thanks. 73, Phil, NS7P ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
