No. PTT works fine he's just "Losing his marbles" as they say. Forgets to unkey.
Last few times I've been on two meters there has been an operator that has shown they've lost the concept of when to key the mic and when to unkey it. You know to hear the other station you have to stop transmitting a signal. I don't know if, it's dementia or something else but it causes problems for sure? When someone gets incompetent to drive you take away the keys, Should it happen when someone gets incompetent to operate a radio too? When you have to keep telling someone to Un-key the Microphone something's wrong.
Quote from: AC4BB on July 22, 2016, 11:31:49 PM Last few times I've been on two meters there has been an operator that has shown they've lost the concept of when to key the mic and when to unkey it. You know to hear the other station you have to stop transmitting a signal. I don't know if, it's dementia or something else but it causes problems for sure? When someone gets incompetent to drive you take away the keys, Should it happen when someone gets incompetent to operate a radio too? When you have to keep telling someone to Un-key the Microphone something's wrong. It's important to understand that many of today's hams are really getting on in years. Perhaps it's a hearing issue, Altzheimer's disease, dementia, neurological problems? Instead of trying to get the poor old chap's license revoked, why not just help him get a VOX set up?
Quote from: ONAIR on July 23, 2016, 01:37:10 PMQuote from: AC4BB on July 22, 2016, 11:31:49 PM Last few times I've been on two meters there has been an operator that has shown they've lost the concept of when to key the mic and when to unkey it. You know to hear the other station you have to stop transmitting a signal. I don't know if, it's dementia or something else but it causes problems for sure? When someone gets incompetent to drive you take away the keys, Should it happen when someone gets incompetent to operate a radio too? When you have to keep telling someone to Un-key the Microphone something's wrong. It's important to understand that many of today's hams are really getting on in years. Perhaps it's a hearing issue, Altzheimer's disease, dementia, neurological problems? Instead of trying to get the poor old chap's license revoked, why not just help him get a VOX set up?It could simply be a very old rig with VOX issues, such as a sticking relay. In the era before HT's became all the rage, 2m base stations were all the rage. A local radio club uses a big, old Kenwood 2m rig to monitor their repeater on Field Day. I believe that it has a separate plug-in mike, unlike a HT. Old PTT external mikes can and do quit. And then there's the relays, having owned a 1980-era Kenwood I know that the relays can up and die in them. My TS130 finally blew the entire RF board, and in that situation when I keyed up in SSB my watt meter would peg at 70w. Absolutely no modulation. So, old ham, old equipment. On a fairly new rig, No VOX, No relays. Old ham yeah, old equipment no.