I find I have to connect my I/q output to my iMic sound card and set the input
switch to 'mic' instead of line. The levels shown in iSDR are modest in this
case.
Does anyone else have a similar experience or is something not right with my iq
output?
Thanks
Alan
K2ACK
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Anyone ever have any problems with muffled audio on SSB with the
K2? It seems no matter which K2 I use I keep getting reports sounding
like a towel over the mic. I have tried various adjustments but it stays
the same. This one I have now has that Mic kit that you can use any mic.
I have tried the E
I have been having some issue with receive sensitivity dropping several S units
on 40m and 20m after I transmit with no change to SWR both with amplifier in
line and also completely bypassed (meaning I physically disconnected the amp
and went straight to the antenna from the K3).
I am not sur
Very interesting. My understanding of the purpose of the key line
interrupter was to prevent the keying path through the AUX cabling
from reaching the KPA500 when a separate RCA cable path is used which
passes through some external device that also wants to interrupt
keying (such as an external pow
*Footnote:* The diagram on page 6 of the KAT500 manual shows the need for a
Key Line Interrupter, but the diagram is with all 3 ELECRAFT units: K3,
KPA500, KAT500,
and not my situation of using a non Elecraft amp. The accompanying
explanatory
note on page 5 refers to "external equipment" (such as
Problem solved! Amp works with K3 and KAT500!
And the KAT500 tracks along with the K3 when band switching, with no need
for retuning.
*I removed the pin #10 wire from the K3 end of the cable.*
BTW, before I removed the wire from #10 I checked to see if
it had a connection to any other pin - an
Iain,
Your logic is impeccable, but somehow the KAT500 senses the connection
of the K3 KeyoutLP signal through the cable pin 10 and attempts to use
that signal (and ignors the RCA cable PTT). I do not have the details,
but this has been reported before - one cannot use both the cable with
pi
On 30/08/2013 2:01 p.m., Dick Dievendorff [via Elecraft] wrote:
> I think the key might be to remove pin 10 from the K3 end of the
> cable. I
> suspect something in the cable might affect the K3's RCA PTT connection,
> either pulling it down full time or holding it up. I'm just guessing. I
> do
I think the key might be to remove pin 10 from the K3 end of the cable. I
suspect something in the cable might affect the K3's RCA PTT connection,
either pulling it down full time or holding it up. I'm just guessing. I
don't question that the cable has continuity pin to pin. I wonder what pins
It really shouldn't be necessary to remove pin 10 - it should get as
far as the relay in the KAT500, and be left dangling there (not
connected to anything else). It really shouldn't do any harm. I still
think it may be shorted to something else, or there's some other
factor at play here that we hav
Reply to Julie KT4JR,
I use iMic with KX3 and it appears as another audio source to the PC which you
select in FlDigi or Mix-W or whatever you choose to use.
I did however suffer from power line frequency bars on the trace due to ground
loops via the PC power supply but they were eliminated
Steve,
Dick's solution will work, but removing the conductor on pin 10 if your
cable is an easier solution.
What Dick is saying is that you are using both the pin 10 connection and
the RCA cable PTT connection between the K3 and the KAT500. I believe
your problem results from attempting to
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Hi Doug,
The cable that I made is with a new 9 wire shielded cable and two new
DB15/VGA connectors.
I am not recycling or converting an old VGA cable.
73, Steve ZL2KE
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I caught a hint that may be the cause of your situation. Are you converting a
VGA cable to make your new cable? If so, there may be internal hidden
connections in the shell of a plug that could cause a problem.
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There seems to be two possible solutions for my amp-disabled problem:
1. Remove the wire to pin #10 from my homebrew cable, and still use the
RCA cable from the KAT500 to the SB220 amp.
2. Make a new cable from the SB220 to the 15 socket on the back of
the KAT500 marked "AMP", usin
Steve,
I recall that there is a problem if both pin 10 of the cable and the RCA
cable is used between the K3 and the KAT500. I can't remember the
details, but try removing pin 10 from your cable as a test.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 8/29/2013 5:34 PM, zl2ke wrote:
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Don, I asked David at Elecraft
FWIW, one resource I often forget about and then remember later when doing
PSK troubleshooting is the fantastic http://www.pskreporter.info/ . It
really is a great help to see if your signal is getting out, and how far it
is getting. (Though I think pskreporter has more jt65 reporting on it
these
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:37 PM, zl2ke wrote:
> On 30/08/2013 9:21 a.m., Iain MacDonnell - N6ML-2 [via Elecraft] wrote:
>>
>> That seems to suggest that your custom cable is defective - maybe it's
>> shorting the keying line (pin 10) to something else and interfering
>> with the K3's key output.
>
On 30/08/2013 9:21 a.m., Iain MacDonnell - N6ML-2 [via Elecraft] wrote:
>
> That seems to suggest that your custom cable is defective - maybe it's
> shorting the keying line (pin 10) to something else and interfering
> with the K3's key output.
The cable is not defective - I checked continuity car
<>
Don, I asked David at Elecraft Customer Support about using a key line
interrupter.
Here is his answer:
"you do not need to use a separate Key Line Interrupter for your
application. When you use the 15 pin cable between the K3 and the KAT500,
it will provide band data tracking the KAT500 with
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:38 PM, zl2ke wrote:
> << If you remove your new cable, does keying work? >>
>
> Thanks for the reply Iain.
> I just removed my cable from the K3's ACC socket and the amp works.
> (The cable/DB15 plug is still attached to the KAT500.)
>
> So what does this mean, and what t
Steve,
Either use the keying interrupter or remove pin 10 from your cable.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 8/29/2013 4:38 PM, zl2ke wrote:
<< If you remove your new cable, does keying work? >>
Thanks for the reply Iain.
I just removed my cable from the K3's ACC socket and the amp works.
(The cable/DB15 plug
Hello Dick and Iain,
With reference to my reply to Iain's post, I forgot to say that I did
unplug the RCA cable from the K3's Key Out, but the amp still did not work.
I did leave the RCA cable plugged into the KAT500 - not sure if this would
make a difference.
Dick, I am not sure if I understand
<< If you remove your new cable, does keying work? >>
Thanks for the reply Iain.
I just removed my cable from the K3's ACC socket and the amp works.
(The cable/DB15 plug is still attached to the KAT500.)
So what does this mean, and what to do now?
Cheers, Steve ZL2KE
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Glad you got it going - what frequency are you on?
Mike, N0SO
From: Julie Royster
To: 'Mike Heitmann' ; elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 2:44 PM
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] anyone using iMic with K3 or KX3 and FLdigi on a PC?
MANY THAN
I just completed adding the Softrock and Clifton Labs buffer to my K2 and it
works nicely! Tony does have a crystal available for the SoftRock Lite II kit
so that it works at 4.9152. For about $75 you can have a decent, but not
great, panadapter for a K2.
Mike - W0AG
wb4...@knology.net wrot
MANY THANKS to Mike Heitmann, N0SO, for so kindly contacting me to say
perhaps the levels were set too high and forcing the KX3 to go into a
self-protect mode. THAT WAS IT! By reducing the sound card level and the
K3 level, I now have 4 ALC bars. Hot diggity dog!
MANY thanks to each of the othe
I HAVE A KX3 CONNECTED TO A GRIFFIN EXT USB SOUND CARD INTO AN ACER LAPTOP.
UPSTAIRS I HAVE A SIMILAR SYSTEM, EXCEPT IT IS A K3 WITH A SIGNAL LINK USB
CONNECTION. IT, THE UPSTAIRS UNIT, WORKS JUST FINE. IF SOMEONE HAS A SIMILAR
ITEM , THAT WORKS, PLEASE CALL JULIE ROYSTER, KT4JR, COLLECT AT 919-
Wouldn't a Softrock Ensemble II receiver for less than $80, feeding a
soundcard, and some free SDR software, be a much cheaper but effective
answer?
The K2 appears to have a 4.9152MHz IF, so using an Ensemble II, with it's
Si570 tuned to 4.9152MHz, should work fine. Then, you feed the Ensembl
Julie,
I think your iMic is not driving the audio hard enough. You *are* using
DATA A submode are you not? If not, you should be.
Try a test - remove the cable from the mic jack and plug in a
microphone. Do not change any settings *except* for the menu MIC bias
if your microphone is the M
We just discovered that the PSK31 signal IS transmitting even though no ALC
bars light up AND our signal does NOT show on our waterfall. A person in
Arkansas actually replied to us in North Carolina.
So what does it mean that we can't get any ALC bars or see our own transmit
signal on the water
Hello Larry!
Subject: KX3 on AM.Have posted several queries concerning the KX3 on AM with no
response.I do have a use for AM (!) but the KX3 on transmit does a poor job on
my setup.
Do you mean the transmit audio is distorted, or that the RF output power
is low, or that the percentage of mo
Continuing my quest for PSK31 on KX3 hooked to a PC laptop, today I tried
using RigCat instead of Hamlib in FLdigi.
I followed the setup documented on this reflector by Dave Esquer.
The progress is that now, if I click the tune button in FLdigi, the RF
display on the KX3 does show some transmissio
Hi Steve,
If you still have *both* RCA cables in place, I can't see how your new
ACC cable could be prevent keying of your SB-220. If you remove your
new cable, does keying work? Check that those RCA cables really are
still intact. Also check that the KAT500 is not interrupting keying
due to exces
Bruce et al :
Using N4PYs RCP (or maybe even DDUTIL) it is possible to slave a Flex-1500 off
of a K2, or other radio, to use it as a Pan Adaptor. So for about the price of
just a
Pan Adaptor (P3 or LP-Pan) you can actually get a Pan Adaptor (Flex-1500) that
can also
be used as a transceiver.
Thanks to all who responded, hope everyone has a good upcoming holiday
weekend..
73
Tim
NZ8J
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There is an updated version of my K3/KX3 Programmer's Reference app available
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Julie,
I'll be doing what you're doing, but there is an issue that I have to resolve first. I have the iMic
and the KXUSB cable plugged into my Toshiba laptop. NaP3 is showing strong spikes intervals of
slightly over 1 kHz. Those are coming from the KXUSB cable. Unplugging the cable from the To
The amplifier key interrupt relay in the KAT500 has two separate poles. One
pole switches the RCA connector path, the other pole switches the path
between pin 10 of each of the two 15-pin accessory connectors.
There is no connectivity between the two poles. Thus, you cannot use one
RCA cable an
Subject: KX3 on AM.Have posted several queries concerning the KX3 on AM with no
response.I do have a use for AM (!) but the KX3 on transmit does a poor job on
my setup.I have heard K3's which do sound good.Is there something I am doing
wrong or is AM a future KX3 project? The KX3 does advertise
I had to make a DB15 cable since my K3 is side-by-side to the KAT500,
so the Elecraft cable that I ordered is too short (the DB15-Y cable is the
only one available and it is for a K3 on top of a KAT500).
However now my SB-220 Amplifier is no longer activated and does not 'fire
up' when the K3 tr
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