[Elecraft] K3 - RTTY on 30 meters

2010-05-18 Thread John E. Reiser
Hello out there, Yesterday a friend asked me to give him a contact on 30-meter RTTY. I had never been on 30-meter RTTY before, but I agreed to give it a try. But then I found that my K3 had no RTTY modulation_ just a carrier on 30-meters. The T-R switching worked fine. Let me explain that

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - RTTY on 30 meters

2010-05-18 Thread Iain MacDonnell - N6ML
Hi John, You didn't say what mode and data sub-mode the K3 was in. It sounds like you may have been in the FSK D sub-mode where you wanted to be in AFSK A, based on the facts that you heard a carrier when transmitting and that you mentioned audio cables as your interface. Data sub-modes are

Re: [Elecraft] K3 - RTTY on 30 meters

2010-05-18 Thread John E. Reiser
: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 - RTTY on 30 meters The K3 mode is band-dependent. If you are using MMTTY in AFSK, you need to set the K3 mode on 30m to DATA-A or AFSK-A. It sounds almost like (single unmodulated carrier) you have set the 30m mode to FSK-D. Vy 73 Chen