Re: [Elecraft] K2 maiden flight

2010-02-17 Thread Gary D Krause
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 lstavenha...@hotmail.com

Re: [Elecraft] K2 maiden flight

2010-02-16 Thread Don Wilhelm
LS, Don't worry about the flash of power or speed. Many K2s do that occasionally. It has to do with the firmware loading down with many things to do at once. It does not indicate any problem with the pots. 73, Don W3FPR lstavenhagen wrote: One quick question. On a couple of occasions the

Re: [Elecraft] K2 maiden flight

2010-02-16 Thread lstavenhagen
Ok, tnx gentlemen for the info. Well then I'm completely out of things to troubleshoot or find wrong. It's 100% as far as I can tell so I guess it's all buttoned up and time to just go QRV. I did order the NB module yesterday, tho, as the rig is basically unusable at night now due to the line

Re: [Elecraft] K2 maiden flight

2010-02-16 Thread 2rGarry
You said: Quote: I did order the NB module yesterday, tho, as the rig is basically unusable at night now due to the line noise. I believe that's the last thing I really need to add to the rig. Unquote Congrats once again on the K2 and the QSO. I don't have the noise blanker and unless I go

[Elecraft] K2 maiden flight

2010-02-15 Thread lstavenhagen
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

Re: [Elecraft] K2 maiden flight

2010-02-15 Thread lstavenhagen
BTW, my QSO with Skip was on 30M. LS -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K2-maiden-flight-tp4578202p4578205.html Sent from the [K2] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home:

Re: [Elecraft] K2 maiden flight

2010-02-15 Thread Vic, K2VCO
On 2/15/10 5:54 PM, lstavenhagen wrote: 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