[Elecraft] [K3] Trouble with RTTY

Joe Subich, W4TV lists at microham-usa.com
Tue Oct 14 12:33:34 EDT 2008


Roger, 

What is the Mark frequency in MMTTY vs. the Mark Frequency
in the K3?  



> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Roger Marrotte
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 12:07 PM
> To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Elecraft] [K3] Trouble with RTTY
> 
> 
> I've been fooling around with RTTY for a few days on my K3.  
> It was working fine yesterday.  I even made a contact and was 
> told I was loud and clear, but today I'm having a problem on 
> receive.  The K3 is in DATA mode and set to FSK D.  It was in 
> this mode yesterday.  I have the DUAL PB turned on.  I'm able 
> to tune in an S9+ RTTY signal easily and have it decode on 
> the K3 screen solidly.  I have MMTTY (latest version) running 
> on my computer.  When the K3 is in DATA mode (whether DUAL PB 
> is on or off) the audio from the radio to the computer is 
> virtually nonexistent.  The audio from the K3 speaker is loud 
> and clear.  This is while the K3 is decoding the RTTY 
> perfectly on it's screen.  I have CWT turned on and the LCD 
> segments are centered.  FC says * 1.35 and is not movable. If 
> I switch the K3 to LSB, the audio to the computer is is now 
> loud and decodes perfectly in the MMTTY screen.  LIN OUT is 
> set to 15 and seems to be more than enough for MMTTY.  I 
> touch nothing else but the MODE.  This didn't happen 
> yesterday.  Yesterday while in FSK D DATA mode, the audio to 
> the computer remained loud and clear.  It's almost as if 
> today the K3 isn't putting out audio when it is in FSK D MODE 
> or that the filter is somehow shifted.
> 
> Roger, W1EM 
> 



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