Re: [Elecraft] Polling noise

2005-02-17 Thread Gregory P. Daly
Todd: It doesn't sound like a bird to me, more like crickets Fortunately, it only happens when you display the DSP status, probably from serial bus activity... if it were there all the time, I'd be mad, since I spend a lot of time listening to 222.1 ;-) 73 DE WB7RSG Greg On Thu, 2005

Re: [Elecraft] Polling noise

2005-02-17 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
Depends on the noise. The computer I'm using for logging has no serial port and it uses a USB->Serial converter. Puts a nice signal on 14.195, the DX calling frequency. That's not Elecraft's fault. However, there are some birdies that are. Up at my friend's QTH, the background noise is so low tha

[Elecraft] Polling noise

2005-02-17 Thread Steve L.
I have an up-to-date K2 w/ the 100W amp. In the instructions it says you should slow the CAT update to once every 2-3 seconds to reduce notice of the slight noise you'll hear when it does a RX/TX on the CAT port. Sure enough, I can hear it but only in dummy load or when the band is *totally* quie