OT: re 2 learning the code tips

[DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL]

Ken said that using script is faster than printing.  Not for me!

I think it depends a lot on the size of your handwriting.  I find that
I can print tiny letters faster than I can write in script, which
tends to get larger (again, for me).  The most important factor (for
me) is that I can always read my printed notes later (days, weeks,
years later), while my script is nearly illegible even a few hours
later.  I have to work hard to figure it out.

While I almost never "hard copy" cw anymore (not for many decades), I
do take notes in seminars (and when I was in class for way too many
years).  Printing works for me!  If I had used script, I would have
flunked out during my first year of college.

Currently, this is also the advise that I offer to the MD's in the
hospital where I work (6,000 of 'em).  Hand-written MD notes done in
script are a dog to decipher.  It is exceedingly rare to find MD notes
(or any provider notes) that are easy to read when done in script.
Printed notes are nearly always a piece of cake to read.  MD's who
have moved from large, loopy script to "tiny" printing love it and are
real believers.  Now if we could only convince them to type!

Give it a try - you might be surprised!

de Doug KR2Q
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[f6dro]

Hello ,

today I've got my first K2 problem after several years with no pb. I have'nt
open the box yet.

Symptom:

when powering the K2 , the elecraft text appears on the LCD , followed by
the frequency where it was used before I got the pb . No noise at all in the
AF , and no keyboard keys working , no S-meter

Anyone got this problem?

73 Dom/F6DRO


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[Don Wilhelm-4]

Dom,

Look first for an unsoldered connection somewhere on the Control Board
or on the Front Panel Board (the control board is the most likely place
for the problem).

Often unsoldered connections can work for several years before they
develop enough oxidation to cause a break in what was only a mechanical
connection.

If you do not find anything unsoldered, start with DC voltage
measurements on the Control Board.

73,
Don W3FPR

f6dro wrote:

>
> today I've got my first K2 problem after several years with no pb. I
> have'nt open the box yet.
>
> Symptom:
>
> when powering the K2 , the elecraft text appears on the LCD , followed
> by the frequency where it was used before I got the pb . No noise at
> all in the AF , and no keyboard keys working , no S-meter
>

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[Tom Arntzen-2]

I get the same symptoms when the cw plug slides 1mm out and short the
keyline.
Unplugg key if it's in there and plugg in again.
If it only was so simple Dom.
We can hope.

Tom LA1PHA.

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Subject: [Elecraft] first K2 problem

> Hello ,
>
> today I've got my first K2 problem after several years with no pb. I
> have'nt open the box yet.
>
> Symptom:
>
> when powering the K2 , the elecraft text appears on the LCD , followed by
> the frequency where it was used before I got the pb . No noise at all in
> the AF , and no keyboard keys working , no S-meter
>
> Anyone got this problem?
>
> 73 Dom/F6DRO
>
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