Mike, The symptom of not being able to do anything from the front panel is usually an indication that it is attempting to transmit as soon as power is applied. The simple thing that can cause a transmit condition is a closed key (or PTT). Remove anything from the micophone jack, remove anything from the key jack and the AUX I/O if you have one. Connect a dummy load 'just in case' my transmit assumption is correct. If you have the KPA100, it is preferable to power only the base K2, but if you have only the 12 volt cable for the KPA100, go ahead and use it.
After that bit of setup, power the K2 on - does it work? If so, one of the external cables was putting it into transmit, your task is to find which one and correct it. If you still have the same problem, remove the top cover (whether that be the KPA100 or the QRP cover. You will be making a couple checks with your DMM. Power on and check the voltage at the anode of both D6 and D7 (located halfway back about 1 inch from the left side panel). During receive, you should find the anode of D6 near 8 volts and the anode of D7 near zero - during transmit, the anode of D6 should go to zero and the anode of D7 will be near 8 volts. If both of them are near 8 volts when you power on, power off quickly and tell us about it. In any case tell us what you found in the above steps before proceeding further (or making any assumptions). An orderly progression of tests will lead you to the failure point. 73, Don W3FPR worsr wrote: > My K2 #5767 suddenly has quit working. Upon power up today, the freq. > readout is OK, but none of the buttons work and the tuning dial doesn't > change freq. No error messages are seen at powerup. > > Anyone have any ideas?? > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
