Hi, I have used my K2/10w a lot the last couple of years. Always a good performer on CW and very good audio reports on SSB. The KAT2 tunes any antenna I have tried an I have used it a lot portable. At one portable activity last summer the radio was exposed to direct sunlight for a while and got very hot. At that time the output power dropped sharply and receive appeared to listen to the whole band at once.
This has happened a couple of times since then. The receive sounds like severe aurora noise covering almost all signals, the transmit on CW is just a low power very wide noise as well. It must be very early in the oscillator stage somewhere, the PLL or something stop working. If I change band it is the same thing on the higher bands. Then suddenly gone and the radio is OK for a moth. Very irritating on portable expeditions or when it happens in the middle of a QSO. I have no clue where to start. I have tried to find a bad connection or bad solder. Is there a PLL reference oscillatior that could make it act like this, or where should I look? Regards, Lennart - SM6KNL -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K2-Aurora-noice-tp4134494p4134494.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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
