Joe you are correct that if there are physical problems and poor adjustments it will be bad but I was assuming a good working setup with a quality sound card that is properly adjusted at both the computer and K3 that it will be fine.

I hope that they add the ability to monitor Transmit signal on the P3 to see how it looks going out. however you can see your real signal by watching your signal on the many online SDR's, http://websdr.org/, that have waterfall displays in real time.


David Moes
VE3DVY


On Thursday 02/10/2014 at 9:01 am, "Joe Subich, W4TV"  wrote:


risk is any off frequency noise from the sound card, harmonics etc
will also get transmitted not really a big issue if the sound card is
good quality.

Not quite accurate ... one can have a professional quality sound card
and if the levels are too high, the connections are not correct, the
ground gets opened, one has a significant degree of common mode RF on
the feedline, one has power supply issues, etc. DATA_A can be very
badly distorted/wide.  AFSK A is not subject to those issues as long
as the narrow filter (CONFIG: AFSK TX) is enabled.

73,

       ... Joe, W4TV


On 2014-10-02 7:30 AM, david Moes wrote:

With AFSK-A  the K3  has very a narrow DSP filter to maintain a really
good transmit IMD  so you need to keep the modulating frequencies
within  the chosen preset filter range  1275 in my setup.  You can use
the waterfall to tune but you need to use DATA-A instead of AFSK-A risk is any off frequency noise from the sound card, harmonics etc will also
get transmitted   not really a big issue if the sound card is good
quality.   I found that with the P3 the markers lined up with the mark
frequency so tuning with the VFO was quite convenient without the P3 I
may have been more tempted to use Data-A and tuning with the mouse

David Moes
President: Peterborough Amateur Radio Club.
dm...@nexicom.net
VE3DVY,  VE3SD

On 10/2/2014 06:32, David Cole wrote:

Why only tune the radio, and not use the Waterfall?

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