Dan, You may have been pressing and holding XMIT, which goes into TUNE mode (CW). You just need to *tap* XMIT to go into voice transmit, then tap it again to exit. It doesn’t act like a PTT switch.
73, Wayne N6KR > On Sep 23, 2017, at 10:52 PM, Dan Presley <n7...@arrl.net> wrote: > > I was doing the SOTA ‘S2S’ summit to summit party today from Oregon, and had > the KX2 going. I almost always do CW, but with little success I switched to > SSB as there were a few guys on. Don’t believe I’ve ever made a voice Q with > this rig.. Of course I forgot the mic, but I figured I could use the built in > one. The problem was that everytime I transmitted (pressing ‘XMIT’) in the > mode window it would switch to CW and back to USB as I released it.I thought > it might be the CW in SSB setting, allowing CW to be sent while in SSB mode > so I changed the menu setting in CW Weight, but it still continued to show > the same in the mode window. And-never did get a Q. Of course it might have > been working and they never heard me, but any ideas why that might be > occurring? Though conditions were lousy I did get to meet N4EX, the top SOTA > chaser in North America, who I’ve worked before from his home state of NC. He > was out here visiting his son. To me the KX2 is the perfect SOTA radio. > Dan Presley N7CQR > n7...@arrl.net > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to n...@elecraft.com ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
