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I was doing the SOTA ‘S2S’ summit to summit party today from Oregon, and had the KX2 going. I almost always do CW, but with little success I switched to SSB as there were a few guys on. Don’t believe I’ve ever made a voice Q with this rig.. Of course I forgot the mic, but I figured I could use the built in one. The problem was that everytime I transmitted (pressing ‘XMIT’) in the mode window it would switch to CW and back to USB as I released it.I thought it might be the CW in SSB setting, allowing CW to be sent while in SSB mode so I changed the menu setting in CW Weight, but it still continued to show the same in the mode window. And-never did get a Q. Of course it might have been working and they never heard me, but any ideas why that might be occurring? Though conditions were lousy I did get to meet N4EX, the top SOTA chaser in North America, who I’ve worked before from his home state of NC. He was out here visiting his son. To me the KX2 is the perfect SOTA radio.
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Sounds like you might have had SPLIT activatedwith CW mode on VFO B.
On 9/23/2017 11:52 PM, Dan Presley wrote: > I was doing the SOTA ‘S2S’ summit to summit party today from Oregon, and had the KX2 going. I almost always do CW, but with little success I switched to SSB as there were a few guys on. Don’t believe I’ve ever made a voice Q with this rig.. Of course I forgot the mic, but I figured I could use the built in one. The problem was that everytime I transmitted (pressing ‘XMIT’) in the mode window it would switch to CW and back to USB as I released it.I thought it might be the CW in SSB setting, allowing CW to be sent while in SSB mode so I changed the menu setting in CW Weight, but it still continued to show the same in the mode window. ... ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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You may have been pressing and holding XMIT, which goes into TUNE mode (CW). You just need to *tap* XMIT to go into voice transmit, then tap it again to exit. It doesn’t act like a PTT switch. 73, Wayne N6KR > On Sep 23, 2017, at 10:52 PM, Dan Presley <[hidden email]> wrote: > > I was doing the SOTA ‘S2S’ summit to summit party today from Oregon, and had the KX2 going. I almost always do CW, but with little success I switched to SSB as there were a few guys on. Don’t believe I’ve ever made a voice Q with this rig.. Of course I forgot the mic, but I figured I could use the built in one. The problem was that everytime I transmitted (pressing ‘XMIT’) in the mode window it would switch to CW and back to USB as I released it.I thought it might be the CW in SSB setting, allowing CW to be sent while in SSB mode so I changed the menu setting in CW Weight, but it still continued to show the same in the mode window. And-never did get a Q. Of course it might have been working and they never heard me, but any ideas why that might be occurring? Though conditions were lousy I did get to meet N4EX, the top SOTA chaser in North America, who I’ve worked before from his home state of NC. He was out here visiting his son. To me the KX2 is the perfect SOTA radio. > Dan Presley N7CQR > [hidden email] > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Yes that’s it! I’m so used to pressing and holding the XMIT as I do that to tune my magloop (LNR). You can’t use the autotunes with a loop. Hopefully the next time I decide to go SSB I’ll remember! By the way-a loop and the KX2 make a great portable combination. The new addition of the CW logging feature is an absolute lifesaver for SOTA-when you’re on a tough location t’s tricky trying to juggle the radio and a notebook .
Dan Presley N7CQR [hidden email] > On Sep 24, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Dan, > > You may have been pressing and holding XMIT, which goes into TUNE mode (CW). You just need to *tap* XMIT to go into voice transmit, then tap it again to exit. It doesn’t act like a PTT switch. > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR > > >> On Sep 23, 2017, at 10:52 PM, Dan Presley <[hidden email]> wrote: >> >> I was doing the SOTA ‘S2S’ summit to summit party today from Oregon, and had the KX2 going. I almost always do CW, but with little success I switched to SSB as there were a few guys on. Don’t believe I’ve ever made a voice Q with this rig.. Of course I forgot the mic, but I figured I could use the built in one. The problem was that everytime I transmitted (pressing ‘XMIT’) in the mode window it would switch to CW and back to USB as I released it.I thought it might be the CW in SSB setting, allowing CW to be sent while in SSB mode so I changed the menu setting in CW Weight, but it still continued to show the same in the mode window. And-never did get a Q. Of course it might have been working and they never heard me, but any ideas why that might be occurring? Though conditions were lousy I did get to meet N4EX, the top SOTA chaser in North America, who I’ve worked before from his home state of NC. He was out here visiting his son. To me the KX2 is the perfect SOTA radio. >> Dan Presley N7CQR >> [hidden email] >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[hidden email] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [hidden email] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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