Jim,

Your mic gain is on the high side. If you have the mic gain range set to "Low", try changing it to "High" and lowering the gain to the 10 to 15 range. Turn compression to zero while the mic gain is adjusted for 5 to 7 bars (7 on peaks) on the ALC meter. After making that setting increase the compression to whatever you desire - most like to run compression in the 10 to 15 range.

See if you can borrow someone who can see the ALC meter while you talk.
Set the K3 to TX TEST so you don't send RF while you make those adjustments.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 3/26/2017 5:38 PM, Jim Kutsch wrote:

The mic gain is set to 45 and compression to 10. Those seemed to give the
correct indication in the ALC meter but the distortion still occurs with 0
compression. I cannot read the ALC indicator myself due to no vision so had
another local ham assist with that part of the K3S setup.
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