Dennis are you setting the rig output power control to the max. of approximately 100 watts? If you do that, set sound card volume sliders to a mid range setting and then use the rig mic gain control you should be able to get up to 100 watts output on PSK31 with no ALC reading and a -25 to -30 IMD. The Mark V Field put's out an exceptionally clean signal up to 100 watts output on the digital modes.
BTW I have a website about the Mark V Field and the digital modes at http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf10.htm . --... ...--, Thomas F. Giella, KN4LF Lakeland, FL, USA Grid Square EL97AW [EMAIL PROTECTED] PODXS 070 PSK31 Club Member #349 Feld Hell Club Member #FH141 Olivia MFSK Yahoo eGroup: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/olivia_mfsk KN4LF Amateur & SWL Radio History: http://www.kn4lf.com KN4LF 160 Meter Propagation Theory Notes: http://www.kn4lf.com/kn4lf8.htm Man Induced Climate Change Refuted: http://www.kn4lf.com/globalwarminglie.htm Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:08:11 -0000 From: "kd8biz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: PSK31 on Mark-V Field Gurus, OK, I'm trying to get up and running on PSK. Running a Mk-V Field with Microham MicroKeyer, using Digipan. I'm using the IMD Meter by kk7uq to monitor IMD. Diawa CN-801 power meter used to read output into a dummy load. I have used the Easy Set to set the User function to PS31-U. This is the behavior I am getting: Using the User function (supposedly optimized for PSK): I get a max of about 80 watts out at idle with the IMD never getting below about -15 db even at the lowest power output - not good! Straight Packet setting - not User function: I get a max of 4Watts out at idle but IMD is never higher than -34DB - that's good. So how do I get up to 35 watts or so and still have decent IMD - this just doesn't seem right to me. So what am I missing? Thanks for any help. Dennis AI8P -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.2/294 - Release Date: 3/27/2006 Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
