Hello All; I am a new K3/100 owner (sn 3045) and a relatively new ham. I come from an art background so please forgive my ignorance.
I use my K3 mostly for soundcard digital and I've noticed something peculiar. Wayne suggests setting the soundcard's outputs (Master & Wave) to 50% and use the Mic Gain to drive the output until either 4 bars of ALC show or the output power level is just below the target power output set on the K3. Since no ALC shows on my set-up anywhere near the point the target output is achieved, the latter procedure is applicable here. When I set the power on the K3 to 50 watts, I am looking for an output level of 40-45 watts. When I start out or switch to a new band, tune the band on my doublet or G5RV and key down, the Mic Gain will be at something like 43 (out of 60) to achieve 40-45 watts. So far so good. But slowly the output creeps up. I keep readjusting the Mic Gain downwards and it usually settles around 27 to where the 40-45 watts power out stays consistent. If I leave it at 27 and switch bands, 27 will produce less than 10 watts! Even if I switch back to the same band. The K3 will eventually level back out at 27. Last night I left the radio on all night after using it and when I came back to it this morning, the 27 level still worked perfectly right away. This seems odd to me. Is this to be expected? I wonder what is going on. 73 de Eric, KG6MZS ______________________________________________________________ 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
