I have held my class B licence since 1972 and always meant to do the morse
test. Finally after 35 years, with the help of John, G3FDN, at the Stirling
Club, I have achieved 12 wpm. Not that this is now needed for HF operation.
Still nervous about going on-air I have been practicing sending using my K2.
Originally setting it to minimum power and connecting a dummy load. Then
realising that I was the dummy and that there is a built in "test" facility;
used this instead.
This worked great, but a few nights ago I was practicing and also half
listening to a local QSO on 2m (simulates QRM) when one of the local lads
was trying out his new TenTec on 10m. Quickly changing to 10m ssb I pressed
the tuning button to set up the antenna but only managed 0.1 on the scale.
Took me while to realise what was causing it - had not changed from test to
normal. No problem - missed joining in the test on 10m but learned
something.
Then this weekend did the same thing again but as I was already on the 40m
dipole did not bother to tune and happily worked a couple of stations on
SSB. Only then I realised that the K2 was still in test mode!
So -- in test mode the K2 will not transmit cw - OK it says it on the tin,
therefore will not transmit a tune signal but it will transmit SSB. I have
the latest firmware on board -- So is this normal??
It is not a problem to me and may already have been highlighted.
73
Peter
GM8GAX
K2 #04027
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