In the last 9 months or so, there have been a number of reports of issues involving the ERR KEY or ERR PTT message. Some of them may have been due to mics picking up noise on power up, or computers holding an RS-232 keying line active on power up.
However, since June 2009, there have been at least 5 separate reports on the reflector of the error appearing while the rig was operating (i.e. not at power up) or persisting with nothing but the power cord connected to the rig. There have been another 3 reports where it wasn't quite clear if it happened while operating or with nothing connected. This happened to me and persisted until I took the rig apart to inspect the key, paddle, and PTT jacks. I found nothing wrong, but when I reassembled the rig, the error was gone. There have been at least 2 other reports of the error spontaneously disappearing. (In other cases, there was no follow up report, so I don't know what the outcome was.) Intermittent problems are hard to track down, but I hope Elecraft either has or will start investigating these reports to figure out why this error is being triggered when it apparently shouldn't be. 73 -- Joe KB8AP ______________________________________________________________ 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
