Re: [Elecraft] PSK31 with a KX2
Times change. ClubLog publishes a weekly summary of uploaded DX contacts at: https://clublog.org/dxreport.html. For this past week, PSK was 0.11% of all those contacts. This is a representative sample (not scientific) of activity by those who use ClubLog. FT8/4 made up about 61%, SSB & CW just short of 38%. This gives us a pretty good idea of where to find the activity. The summary includes other modes along with other information. You may not like it, but it is a close approximation of reality. RTTY fans (0.69% in this summary) can't believe there are so few operating RTTY, except during contest weekends. If one picks a mode with such small numbers, one can't expect to find much activity. I use multiple radios, one of which is dedicated to FTn. This allows me to make CW/SSB contacts while the other radio is making FTn contacts. FTn has filled in a lot of band-slots and even States on 12m toward 9BWAS for me, with little skill and minimal effort. If one pays attention to FTn details, one can make even more contacts there. I get tired of clicking. I don't like to move my hands off the home keys. 73, Bill, K8TE -- Sent from: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.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
Re: [Elecraft] PSK31 with a KX2
Gang, Well, I solved the no decode problem with my KX2. I was not decoding much PSK31 because there is not much around to decode. Since I was active on digital modes, things have evolved (imagine that!). Once I boned up on the fact that most of the warbling one hears is FT8, and set up a program for same, I'm decoding lots of signals. I am truly a dinosaur. Thanks to all and stay well! Bob WB0POQ On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 5:20 PM Bill Johnson wrote: > Bob, when you get it working, then do an immediate backup in case you > enter the wrong information after that. You can at least get back to where > you were. When I am told I have a great signal on SSB, I do an immediate > backup to preserve my settings. > > Bill > K9YEQ > > -Original Message- > From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net > On Behalf Of Bob Liesen > Sent: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 7:11 PM > To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: [Elecraft] PSK31 with a KX2 > > All, > Pulling my hair out here. I have been trying to get my KX2 to work on > PSK31. After many attempts I got it working perfectly with DigiPan, but > I'm not sure how. Then something happened that I have found is a problem > for me with this radio. I must have turned a knob, hit a key or some such > thing as it stopped decoding. I find the knobs and buttons are too close > to one another for these old eyes and fingers. > I am using DATA A mode, I have the BW at 4kHz and center freq of 1.5 > AGC is off, RF gain is 0dB. NB and NR is off. I suspected I might have > screwed up the USB/LSB setting somehow, but HamScope has a "reverse" > function which does not help. > Is there anyone who could walk me through the settings that might be > screwing this up? > Tnx es 73 > Bob WB0POQ > __ > 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 k9...@live.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
Re: [Elecraft] PSK31 with a KX2
Bob, when you get it working, then do an immediate backup in case you enter the wrong information after that. You can at least get back to where you were. When I am told I have a great signal on SSB, I do an immediate backup to preserve my settings. Bill K9YEQ -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net On Behalf Of Bob Liesen Sent: Tuesday, March 9, 2021 7:11 PM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] PSK31 with a KX2 All, Pulling my hair out here. I have been trying to get my KX2 to work on PSK31. After many attempts I got it working perfectly with DigiPan, but I'm not sure how. Then something happened that I have found is a problem for me with this radio. I must have turned a knob, hit a key or some such thing as it stopped decoding. I find the knobs and buttons are too close to one another for these old eyes and fingers. I am using DATA A mode, I have the BW at 4kHz and center freq of 1.5 AGC is off, RF gain is 0dB. NB and NR is off. I suspected I might have screwed up the USB/LSB setting somehow, but HamScope has a "reverse" function which does not help. Is there anyone who could walk me through the settings that might be screwing this up? Tnx es 73 Bob WB0POQ __ 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 k9...@live.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
Re: [Elecraft] PSK31 with a KX2
Bob, Have you tried tweaking the gain on the KX2, to see if you can decode with the gain increased? Just spitballing, but that may help. 73 de, Ian, NV4C On 3/9/21 8:11 PM, Bob Liesen wrote: All, Pulling my hair out here. I have been trying to get my KX2 to work on PSK31. After many attempts I got it working perfectly with DigiPan, but I'm not sure how. Then something happened that I have found is a problem for me with this radio. I must have turned a knob, hit a key or some such thing as it stopped decoding. I find the knobs and buttons are too close to one another for these old eyes and fingers. I am using DATA A mode, I have the BW at 4kHz and center freq of 1.5 AGC is off, RF gain is 0dB. NB and NR is off. I suspected I might have screwed up the USB/LSB setting somehow, but HamScope has a "reverse" function which does not help. Is there anyone who could walk me through the settings that might be screwing this up? Tnx es 73 Bob WB0POQ __ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] PSK31 with a KX2
I just tried out DigiPan with my KX2 for the first time earlier today. At first I thought it wasn't working because I couldn't decode any signals on PSK31. Then I happened to stumble on a W1AW bulletin on RTTY. Then they switched over to PSK31 and it decoded perfectly. I guess the answer is that a lot of the signals on the air that sound like PSK31 are actually something else. By the way, PSK31 is symmetrical in frequency so it doesn't matter whether you select LSB or USB. That's why the Reverse function in DigiPan is disabled for PSK31. When W1AW first switched from RTTY to PSK31, the KX2 was still in FSK mode with the narrow filter. It decoded the PSK31 just fine. Then I switched to LSB and it continued to decode perfectly. Alan N1AL On 3/9/2021 6:11 PM, Bob Liesen wrote: All, Pulling my hair out here. I have been trying to get my KX2 to work on PSK31. After many attempts I got it working perfectly with DigiPan, but I'm not sure how. Then something happened that I have found is a problem for me with this radio. I must have turned a knob, hit a key or some such thing as it stopped decoding. I find the knobs and buttons are too close to one another for these old eyes and fingers. I am using DATA A mode, I have the BW at 4kHz and center freq of 1.5 AGC is off, RF gain is 0dB. NB and NR is off. I suspected I might have screwed up the USB/LSB setting somehow, but HamScope has a "reverse" function which does not help. Is there anyone who could walk me through the settings that might be screwing this up? Tnx es 73 Bob WB0POQ __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] PSK31 with a KX2
On 3/9/21 at 8:11 PM, wb0...@gmail.com (Bob Liesen) wrote: I am using DATA A mode, I have the BW at 4kHz and center freq of 1.5 AGC is off, RF gain is 0dB. NB and NR is off. I suspected I might have screwed up the USB/LSB setting somehow, but HamScope has a "reverse" function which does not help. One of the joys of PSK31 is that the signals are symmetric, that is both USB and LSB will be able to decode the signal. I'm not sure I can help further since I haven't tried to work PSK31 on a KX2 and I don't think I have any of the software you are using. (It probably won't run on my Mac.) Can you decode signals using the internal PSK31 on the KX2? If that works, then you have decodable audio being sent to your computer. 73 Bill AE6JV --- Bill Frantz| Ham radio contesting is a | Periwinkle (408)348-7900 | contact sport.| 150 Rivermead Rd #235 www.pwpconsult.com | --Ken Widelitz K6LA/VY2TT | Peterborough, NH 03458 __ 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
[Elecraft] PSK31 with a KX2
All, Pulling my hair out here. I have been trying to get my KX2 to work on PSK31. After many attempts I got it working perfectly with DigiPan, but I'm not sure how. Then something happened that I have found is a problem for me with this radio. I must have turned a knob, hit a key or some such thing as it stopped decoding. I find the knobs and buttons are too close to one another for these old eyes and fingers. I am using DATA A mode, I have the BW at 4kHz and center freq of 1.5 AGC is off, RF gain is 0dB. NB and NR is off. I suspected I might have screwed up the USB/LSB setting somehow, but HamScope has a "reverse" function which does not help. Is there anyone who could walk me through the settings that might be screwing this up? Tnx es 73 Bob WB0POQ __ 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
[Elecraft] PSK31 with a KX2
Gang, I am trying to get DigiPan (and other) apps to decode PSK31 from the phones jack of my KX2. I have tried the DATA A mode as well as normal SSB mode. I have tried a USB sound card as well as the built in sound card of my laptop. I can see signals in the waterfall, they look normal. I have tried reversing the sideband in use. All to no avail. My old TS 430S decodes perfectly with simple cables hooked up between the radio and computer, which is leading me to suspect I am missing something with the KX2. Any thoughts? Bob WB0POQ __ 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
