Strange CW at each button push

[Richard Day-2]

On my last two SOTA activations, my KX2 appears to be working valiantly.
At some point, however, I find that I cannot push any button without it
giving me a short CW message.

I am not up on CW yet, and during a SOTA activation, there is no time to
try to understand what is happening.  It doesn't act up when at home!?

When on an activation, I merely turn the radio off and back on.  That
clears the problem temporarily.

I am on firmware rev. 02.86


Rich Day
KK4DZE
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[Mike Morrow-3]

You may want to upgrade the firmware to version 2.89.

Mike / KK5F

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>From: Richard Day <[hidden email]>
>Sent: Feb 19, 2018 12:53 PM
>To: [hidden email]
>Subject: [Elecraft] Strange CW at each button push
>
>On my last two SOTA activations, my KX2 appears to be working valiantly.
>At some point, however, I find that I cannot push any button without it
>giving me a short CW message.
>
>I am not up on CW yet, and during a SOTA activation, there is no time to
>try to understand what is happening.  It doesn't act up when at home!?
>
>When on an activation, I merely turn the radio off and back on.  That
>clears the problem temporarily.
>
>I am on firmware rev. 02.86
>
>Rich Day
>KK4DZE

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[Don Wilhelm]

Richard,

Check the SW TONE menu  If you have it set to CODE nn (where nn is WPM),
then you will get that morse when you push a button - it is a nice
feature for sight impaired amatuers.

That can also be turned on by Holding the AFP/AN button while turning
the KX2 on.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 2/19/2018 1:53 PM, Richard Day wrote:
> On my last two SOTA activations, my KX2 appears to be working valiantly.
> At some point, however, I find that I cannot push any button without it
> giving me a short CW message.
>
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[Richard Day-2]

Thanks guys.  That is very fast response.

I have as a result of these suggestions, updated to the newest revision of
the firmware.
I had thought that the radio was giving me information through the tones,
but I couldn't find it.

I turned off the SW TONE, and that will probably do it.  I will see on my
next activation of a summit.

Thank you each of you for the help.

Rich Day
KK4DZE

On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 5:24 PM, Don Wilhelm <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Richard,
>
> Check the SW TONE menu  If you have it set to CODE nn (where nn is WPM),
> then you will get that morse when you push a button - it is a nice feature
> for sight impaired amatuers.
>
> That can also be turned on by Holding the AFP/AN button while turning the
> KX2 on.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
>
> On 2/19/2018 1:53 PM, Richard Day wrote:
>
>> On my last two SOTA activations, my KX2 appears to be working valiantly.
>> At some point, however, I find that I cannot push any button without it
>> giving me a short CW message.
>>
>>

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Richard N. Day
828-606-6922 <(828)%20606-6922> Cell
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