Sounds like your audio bandpass is narrowed somehow. Check the low/high or width settings. I have never had that happen, but I can't remember the last time I made a non-digital Q on the KX3 so setting never get changed.
On Wed, May 31, 2023, 11:54 David Haines <dhai...@bates.edu> wrote: > After years of success with FT8 here's a puzzle I've never solved: For > FT8 when I set WSJT-X radio settings to Data/Pkt, the WSJT-X waterfall > display seems useless, with all the signals concentrated at the center > of the waterfall. > For that reason I always set WSJT-X to USB and get a useful waterfall. > Why does this happen and am I missing something? > > david > > KC1DNY > KX3 and now a brand new KX2. > > On 5/31/2023 1:13 AM, Jim Rhodes wrote: > > I have used my KX3 for many hundreds of FT8 Qs. Data-A mode is USB > without > > any compression or equalizer. I use WSJT-X almost exclusively and I > always > > use CAT PTT, never VOX. If you ever use a rig without a DATA mode run in > > USB with no audio processing on TX or RX. Moderate NB seems to be OK if > > needed. > > > > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 9:40 PM Karl W Hubbard via Elecraft < > > elecraft@mailman.qth.net> wrote: > > > >> Hi Ian, > >> Thanks for the follkowup and clarifications. I too was caught in this > >> dilemma. I would think too that digital software would use, well, DATA > >> mode transmission! But on 7.078 / 40 meters, the JS8Call would not > enter a > >> frequency if my KX3 was transmitting on LSB. It did promptly enter the > >> frequencies for 40 and 80 meters when I switched the KX3 mode to USB. > >> 73sKarl AF5LQ > >> > >> > >> On Monday, May 29, 2023 at 09:09:43 PM EDT, Ian Kahn < > >> nv4c....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Clarification - they run DATA or USB. I apologize for the omission in > my > >> first reply. > >> 73 de, > >> Ian, NV4C > >> On Mon, May 29, 2023, 9:08 PM Ian Kahn <nv4c....@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> Karl, > >> Just one correction for you - the WSJT-X modes, of which JS8Call is a > >> branch, all run upper side band, regardless of which band/frequency > you're > >> using. > >> 73 de, > >> Ian, NV4C > >> On Mon, May 29, 2023, 6:14 PM Karl W Hubbard via Elecraft < > >> elecraft@mailman.qth.net> wrote: > >> > >> > >> Is there an up-to-date source in the Elecraft community for the > Elecraft > >> KX3 on how to install/runJS8Call version 2.2.0 from scratch outthere? > >> > >> I have the standard KX3-PX3-KXPA100 set up with the latestfirm ware > >> updates connected to my laptop with Windows 11 10thgeneration Intel > >> processor etc. computervia the final RS232 outlet on the KPA100with > the > >> 3.5 mm and USB cable that has two lights a green and a red light onthe > USB > >> plug. > >> > >> I down loaded the latest version of JS8call, entered my callsign and the > >> grid, but I keep getting a failure message “hamlib could notconnect to > the > >> rig.” > >> > >> I can not select from the menu the 7.078 frequency to post inthe upper > >> left corner. > >> > >> There is no signal strength vertical bar indicator lightingup on the > >> transmit window in the lower left of the computer screen. > >> > >> When I select mode on the KX3, do I select a data mode orkeep it on the > >> LSB for the 40 meter band? > >> > >> The red transmit light on the KX3 does not illuminate when Itry to send > a > >> message from JS8Call. Is this dependent on a VOX setting? > >> > >> Test send on CAT always indicates red or failure to send. > >> > >> Do I need a Signalink soundcard to make this connection? Ihave one wired > >> for the KX3 but really don’t want to use it as I already haveenough > wires > >> all over the place. I thought these modern high end computers > alreadyhave a > >> built in sound card. > >> > >> As a very frustrated owner of KX3s because of antenna and 100Wpower > >> limitations, I had decided to try to try some QSO’s using FS8call. I > >> havebeen able to sign in on the Sunday night 3.784 9:00EST Elecraft > net > >> call-in only two occasions,admittedly with the poor bands. > >> > >> Nothing in Caddy’s book, and the You Tube videos are aFrankensteinian > >> patchwork of outdated limited context how tos. Am I under afalse > >> impression, but isn’t FS8Call essentially a game changer on the HF > >> communications,the comeback in CW notwithstanding? Does Elecraft need to > >> put out anupdate/addendum on how to configure this mode like it did for > >> PSK31, RTTY , andCW etc? > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks for any suggestions, even those that are “sillyrabbit, didn’t you > >> know that you have to do this_____?” > >> > >> 73’s > >> > >> Karl, AF5LQ > >> > >> ______________________________________________________________ > >> 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 > >> Message delivered to nv4c....@gmail.com > >> > >> > >> ______________________________________________________________ > >> 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 > >> Message delivered to jimk...@gmail.com > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to jimk...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
