I've had my K2 for a few years now and it does the same thing as yours. The power or key speed will pop up once in a while and then vanish. It doesn't seem to hurt anything so, I've just ignored it.
Gary, N7HTS On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:54:01 -0800 (PST) lstavenhagen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Made my first contact with my K2 this eve, N6OND, Skip out in San Francisco > (CA). > I have a random wire up in the apt and used my old MFJ tuner with it. I > "blew smoke" at 10 watts and the bottom of the rig was noticeably warm at > the end of the QSO, so I was really smokin'.... He gave me a 549 and towards > the end the QSB got me and ended it. > The QRN was really bad on my end, so it was good he was using 150W with a > 3el beam! (Ordered the NB module and T1 antenna tuner today, the NB should > knock some of this noise out). > > Oh well, now it's just another ol used radio, hi hi... ButI can tell I've > been inactive for 10 years. I had to back off the keyer to 13 wpm just to > send without mistakes every other word. My code copy is getting back up > fairly good just listening around the bands, I'm up to about 25wpm solid and > closing back in on 30wpm plain language and contest exchanges, but my > sending is just terrible. Really needs loads of practice. So I'll be working > on it with the Vox on TESt for a while ;). > > One quick question. On a couple of occasions the keyer and power displays > have popped up momentarily on their own as if I'd turned the pots, but I > didn't touch them at the time. I was wondering if perhaps the pots just need > to be worked and are a little 'scratchy'? Just thought it was strange. > Anyone seen this before? Seems to be very rare so I'm not worried right now > about bad connections or anything like that. > > Tnx es 73, > LS > W5QD > -- > View this message in context: >http://n2.nabble.com/K2-maiden-flight-tp4578202p4578202.html > Sent from the [K2] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
