[Dx4win] RX Audio Levels in PSK31 Mode

[Randy Farmer]

I'm in the final stages of a comprehensive station functional 
checkout after installing a new K3 in my primary station. Last night 
I finally got around to trying PSK31 and everything seems to work, BUT...

For some reason DX4WIN really needs a big honkin' audio signal to do 
anything with PSK. MMTTY, either from within or from outside DX4WIN, 
has plenty of sensitivity and MixW is OK as well. I haven't yet 
checked N1MM. I'm using a microHAM Microkeyer II with a built-in 
sound card. For everything but DX4WIN PSK31 I only need to set its 
level pot to about 9:00 and I have plenty of signal. To get decent 
audio in the DX4WIN PSK window I need to turn it up to around 3:00. 
At first I thought the problem was a sound card configuration issue, 
but everything checked out and I finally turned up the input and 
there the signals were.

Has anyone else noticed anything else like this? I wonder if it's a 
feature of the PSKCore.dll engine that DX4WIN uses for this mode. 
This is far from a problem, just a puzzling thing that I don't have a 
real explanation for. Is it unique to my station or has this been 
seen before? This is NOT something unique to Version 8.01. I checked 
and it acts exactly the same way with 7.07, which uses a slightly 
earlier version of pskcore.dll.

BTW, aside from the minor issues that have already been reported, 
Version 8.01 continues to run like a train here. It runs 24-7 on my 
station computer and controls the radio flawlessly when I turn it on. 
I really like the band map, although a few of the enhancements that 
have suggested here previously would certainly be welcome.

73...
Randy, W8FN