[Dx4win] PSK31 setup problems

Fri, 26 Apr 2002 21:28:06 -0500

The most common reason I have found for that to happen is the PC sound card
doesn't default to "line in".  Couple that with the fact that the audio
controls in Windows defaults to Play and not Record controls and you have a
HUGE number of collectively wasted hours.  I know -- I count for many of
those hours <sigh>.

Here is the simple way to check:

1. open DX4WIN and then start PSK-31.
2. hold the mouse cursor over the buttons below the waterfall and right
click.
3. select Rx window and the Recording Audio control pops up.
4. be sure that "Line" is selected.

That should do it.  Note that if PSK31 mysteriously fails to see the sound
sometime in the future, it is probably because some other program reset the
control to CD (or some such).  Just repeat the above and it will go back to
the way it was.

An alternate way is:

1. Double click the little speaker icon in the system tray and the Play
controls should open.
2. Select Options | Properties and the in the box that opens select
Recording then OK.
3. The record control will open.
4. be sure that "Line" is selected.

Hope this helps,

Ron, AG5RS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Dave Henderson
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:01 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Dx4win] PSK31 setup problems
>
>
> I'm sure there is something really easy I'm missing here but I've been
> punching buttons for 2 hours now and I'm stuck, read and re-read
> the users
> guide and the help files  to no avail. it possible its there and I just
> don't see it after two hours.
>
> I'm trying to set up PSK31 for the first time on this system ( I had
> done  it a year ago with a different computer), but never got
> around to it
> when I upgraded computer platforms
>
> I know I'm getting audio into the sound card because I can hear
> it from the
> headphones in the sound card OUT and I can decode RTTY through the sound
> card when I'm using Writelog, I can not seem to get any signal display on
> the "waterfall" or the "spectrum" display..in PSK31 mode in DX4WIN?
>
>   I'm running WIN98SE, DX4WIN 5.01 and a Creative Labs Sandblaster PCI-128
>
> Help
> Dave
> NR1DX
>
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