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K3 and JT65

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Well i don't know what happened.  I am still not getting any meter indications and nothing tells me i'm getting any power out.  However, while playing around on 6 a fellow over in Texas called me on JT65.  We did make a couple of exchanges but did not finish the QSO.  I must have been radiating microwatts?  Anyway when he called me back it scared the heck out of me because i knew it wasn't possible.  

Think i'll go watch TV and give this up.  It's getting to me cause i'm not making any progress and my mind (what little of it is left) is getting foggy.

Larry
W0OGH

Trivia no one wants to hear....
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Re: K3 and JT65

Don Wilhelm-4
Larry,

As others have said, use DATA A, and if you are using an interface box,
make sure it is plugged to give you line level output.  I suspect that
you have microphone level audio from an interface box and you are trying
to use the K3 line level input.

You must have enough audio drive to show 4 bars on the K3 ALC meter with
the 5th bar flickering.  Most interfaces provide microphone level output
which is way too low for the K3 Line input.  See the documentation for
your interface box to see how to set it for line level.

Using DATA A (data submode) will set the compression to zero and bypass
the audio equalization - so your settings for SSB will be preserved when
you return to SSB mode.  When switching to "DATA" mode, you could be in
any of the 4 data submodes, make sure you are set to DATA A.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 7/19/2012 11:34 PM, [hidden email] wrote:

> Well i don't know what happened.  I am still not getting any meter indications and nothing tells me i'm getting any power out.  However, while playing around on 6 a fellow over in Texas called me on JT65.  We did make a couple of exchanges but did not finish the QSO.  I must have been radiating microwatts?  Anyway when he called me back it scared the heck out of me because i knew it wasn't possible.
>
> Think i'll go watch TV and give this up.  It's getting to me cause i'm not making any progress and my mind (what little of it is left) is getting foggy.
>
> Larry
> W0OGH
>
> Trivia no one wants to hear....
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