MANY THANKS to Mike Heitmann, N0SO, for so kindly contacting me to say perhaps the levels were set too high and forcing the KX3 to go into a self-protect mode. THAT WAS IT! By reducing the sound card level and the K3 level, I now have 4 ALC bars. Hot diggity dog!
MANY thanks to each of the other kind folks who sent suggestions, including Don Wilhelm, Brian Alsop, and Ray Sills. As the saying goes, now we're cooking with gas! Cheers to all! Julie KT4JR -----Original Message----- From: Mike Heitmann [mailto:n...@att.net] Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 3:19 PM To: Julie Royster Subject: Re: [Elecraft] anyone using iMic with K3 or KX3 and FLdigi on a PC? >From your description I'm assuming: A) you're using DATA A mode. B) FLDigi is receiving OK. C) that you have plugged in a headset or speaker to the iMic output and verified the computer is outputting audio tones on the pin connected to the KX3 mic input when FLDigi thinks its transmitting. I understand you have the PC audio level set pretty high. It's been a while since I used my iMic, but if memory serves, back in the days of earlier firmware there were reports of no ALC displayed if the audio input of the KX3 was driven too hard. This may no longer be the case with current firmware, but it's worth mentioning. I'd try turning both the mic gain and the iMic audio out down to very low levels then increase each very slowly. Hope you get it going! Mike, N0SO On Aug 29, 2013, at 12:02 PM, "Julie Royster" <jsdroys...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > Continuing my quest for PSK31 on KX3 hooked to a PC laptop, today I > tried using RigCat instead of Hamlib in FLdigi. > I followed the setup documented on this reflector by Dave Esquer. > > The progress is that now, if I click the tune button in FLdigi, the RF > display on the KX3 does show some transmission BUT I cannot get any > ALC bars to light up regardless of whether sound card levels are at > 50% or 100%, KX3 mic level is at maximum, or anything else I have > tried. Per a comment in the blog of K4MTX, I tried reducing KX3 power a little also. > > If anyone has additional ideas I will certainly appreciate all suggestions! > Julie KT4JR ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
