I don't get on the air much but do enjoy working the major contests. Last weekend I fired up the K2 and WriteLog and worked the full 10 hours of NAQP. The K2 did a great job; its little fan fired up on cue during long sessions of transmitting but otherwise no complaints. WriteLog did its normal job of being obtuse and confusing but worked great except for three times when it lost comm with the K2 and I had to exit and re-launch the program to get it back. It could talk to the K2 but apparently wasn't getting frequency updates.
I talk to the K2 through the microHAM microKEYER via a USB port on my computer using the microHAM software that makes WriteLog think I have a bunch of serial ports. I use the WinKey keyer that's in the microKEYER. The comm losses seemed to happen at times when I was switching between WriteLog and its keyboard window with ALT-K or switching back to WriteLog from the keyboard window. If anyone has found the secret to making it work right all the time, let me know. And if anyone has any insight into why WriteLog has to be so freakishly difficult to configure (hundreds of settings can only be adjusted by editing an INI file in your Windows directory) that might be interesting, too. :-) Craig NZ0R K1 #1966 K2/100 #4941 KX1 #1499 KX1 #1541 (still in the box) _______________________________________________ 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
