Hello group, I am now a proud owner of the brand new KX2 which arrived few days ago straight from CA. Being also a proud owner of an old and fully upgraded K3 I found this little rig very familliar to operate and navigate. Very lovely package of all what you need on QRP, including the battery pack and the key paddle! I am especially amased by the built-in microfone - it works very nicely and I am re-descovering the SSB mode being mainly the CW op! The RX audio quality of SSB signals is outstandingly pleasant even with this small speaker! The general sensitivity of the receiver though seems a bit too low compare to the K3 thus the preamp is needed most of time even with good antennas. But that is no problem.
A strange bug appears to live in the radio. It only related to 80m band LSB mode. It is not possible to get the signal transmitted if you are on 80m on power-up or if you come to 80m LSB from another band. Pushing Xmit or mics PTT puts the rig into transmit mode but RF meter shows no output. If you want to transmit, you have to change the mode into CW, transmit a dot or so ( it always works on CW ok ) then change back to the LSB mode and then only it starts transmitting your SSB signal out. The bug is NOT related with the " RF in the shack" case, it is there with different antennas and the dummy. The bug is permanently there and does not depend on battery supply, voltage, etc. I have also tried to reload the latest firmware , no change. So I think it could be the firmware problem. Would be interesting to know if anybody else experiencing the same strange effect? 72! de Linas LY2H KX2 #1488 K3 #1568 S-upgraded ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
