The rush-rush sound might be serial port noise caused by mmtty polling the rig. I get serial port noise on my K2. Or it could indeed be aliens.
David, W4SMT --- Fred Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, only one is Elecraft-related. > > 1. Not Elecraft One: 15m RTTY, K2/100 feeding amp > to 500W, DC muffin > fan on KPA100 heatsink, tower is ENE of the back > corner of the house > about 15m away, beam at 070. All is well. Turn > antenna to WNW > [starting to get over the house], and when I > transmit, the fan stops. > While transmitting, turn beam back to 070 [away from > house], and fan > slowly speeds up. This happens when I have the fan > on the K2 running > but I'm transmitting on my soon-to-be-replaced > TS-850 at 500W from the > amp too. Ideas welcome, no full-moon stories > please. > > 2. Elecraft one [I think]: My RTTY set-up is > really minimalist. Sound > card feeds the mic input, headphone jack feeds the > sound card input, VOX > keys the radio, a splitter feeds a little RS audio > amp to my headphones. > It's about the complexity I can handle with the > gap between RTTY contests. > > Regardless of band, I have a very low "rush-rush" > sound in the cans. If > you remember the movie "Contact," it sounds like the > alien prime number > signal before we did all the DSP to it and found > other stuff. Just > "rush-rush-rush" about once a second. [I tried > counting them, but so > far, no prime numbers, I don't think it's ET]. I'm > close to deaf so it > may be a lot louder than I think, but it doesn't > show up, that I can > tell, on the MMTTY displays. It changes character > when I am tuning the > K2. It also will change intensity when I move the > headphone cord. I > can make it stop by tuning the radio real fast. > This does not happen > when I'm on the 850 [or FT-847]. > > It doesn't bother me all that much, just curious. > Ideas welcome, let's > leave full moon stories out of this. > > 73, > > Fred K6DGW > - Northern California Contest Club > - CU in the 2008 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 08 > - www.cqp.org > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
