Re: [Elecraft] KX3 ALC indicator issue

2021-08-13 Thread David Herring
Bingo! That was it. I cranked the PC and app levels way down to like 30 percent, dropped the mic gain to zero, and then started slowly increasing the mic gain and then got ALC bars somewhere around the 15 to 20 level. I guess in all my playing around with this, I must never have had the combi

Re: [Elecraft] KX3 ALC indicator issue

2021-08-13 Thread AL7CR
When the input signal is too high no ALC is shown in data mode. Reduce the input to a minimum and gradually increase the KX3 gain and the ALC will appear. You would think that high input would show max ALC bars but that is not how it works. Same problem took me several hours to troubleshoot

[Elecraft] KX3 ALC indicator issue

2021-08-13 Thread David Herring
So I have been researching this most of the afternoon to no avail. I have a KX3 that when in Data A mode, does not indicate ALC on the ALC display. I am using WSJT-X to generate an audio signal from the PC. When I do so, I can see that the KX3 is putting out RF, and in fact I can make contact