Hi,
I am sure this has been mentioned before, but I have a K2 here that
makes quite a loud "digital scratching" as the dial is rotated , only on
the bottom of 40m and with the antenna off. It is bad enough that if I try
the old trick of using the weak tone generated at 7mhz to check if my
filters are set so the received tone doesn't alter between filters, it
actually modulates the tone and makes it useless to use.
In all other respects the set appears to be going fine, but perhaps someone
can enlighten me as to whether I have a problem.
As another view to your CW debate that is raging at present. Here in NZ we
have no CW test now either, and it hasn't altered the useage of CW anyway
at all. In fact some new tickets are requesting help learning it. Whether
we loose any "clout" in holding onto our frequencies is now a point of
conjecture. Most of our MF bands probably aren't of much commercial
interest ....we can just hope the IARU can hold them out if they do get
interested. Our main problem down here is fishing boats being equipped with
Amateur gear, and Indonesean "pirates" using Amateur gear for everything
from running a taxi company to talking to Aunt Matilda......
It's not about loosing CW privileges.....it's all about loosing your Bands
you should be worrying about. Use em or loose em ....doesn't matter what
mode. if the new chaps are green on the protocol it's up to us to
straighten them out ( nicely).....
Cheers.......Ron ZL1TW
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