My friend Tony W1ZMB just finished building his K2 this week and asked me to visit him and try it out yesterday. He did a great job and it works great. However, a strange thing happened two times during a CW QSO I made at 5 watts using his perfectly matched OCF dipole on 20 Meters. He has the KAF2, KAT2, and KNB2 options installed.
The problem: during transmit the K2 powered itself off and then right back on and operation continued. The receiving station might not even have noticed because it was that fast. Tony did not have the K2 grounded. He immediately ran a short braid directly to his copper ground rod and has not since experienced this problem. I'm not convinced it was the ground. My K2 is grounded at home but I frequently use it off-site without a ground and never had this 'dropout' occur. Since Tony is not yet an member of our Reflector I'm posting this query on his behalf. Has anyone had a similar problem? Thanks! 73, Stan WB2LQF KX1 #2411 K1#2994 K2# 6980 K3#5244 K9 #1 (Cocoa the Chihuahua) Everything is QRP, even the dog. ______________________________________________________________ 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
