RE: [Elecraft] K2 receive audio harmonic distortion

2006-03-05 Thread K. Rice
Thanks Sverre, Mike and Don. Doh! After cutting the PC's software gain control to near-minimum, it does appear that most if not all of the odd-harmonic distortion was due to overdriving the soundcard. To make certain, I will repeat the experiment on a USB sound card that has bona fide line inp

RE: [Elecraft] K2 receive audio harmonic distortion

2006-03-05 Thread Don Wilhelm
Ken, I do not believe that harmonic distortion is coming from the K2 - that pattern looks like a soundcard overdriven condition to me. When you reduce the AF Gain at the K2, you reduce the input to the sound card, and at some point, the soundcard no longer distorts. Use the PC soundcard mixer co

Re: [Elecraft] K2 receive audio harmonic distortion

2006-03-05 Thread Mike Harris
G'day, | Today I fed an S9 CW signal into Spectrogram and find that its third audio | harmonic is down approximately 10 dB from the fundamental. The 5th, | 7th, 9th, are down about 4 db sucessively from the next-lower odd | harmonic. Sounds like overdriving the sound card to me. I never run Sp