[Elecraft] K3 ACL setting for PSK31

[Iain MacDonnell - K6IAM]

Haines Brown wrote:
> I'm struggling to set up K3 for PSK31 and hit a snag. 
> 
> I can decode signals with fldigi on a Thinkpad X61s running
> Sidux. My K3 MCU is 2.46, which apparently I can't upgrade because
> that's the highest version for linux at this point. For data mode I've
> got the 400 Hz filter selected.
> 
>   set MIC SEL to LINE IN, 
>   set MODE to DATA, 
>   set RF power to 20W, 
>   set DATA MD to DATA-A.
> 
> Now the problem: I hold METER to display CMP/ALC scales. The CMP is
> zero, as it should be. I next try to adjust the MIC control to set ALC
> to 4 bars, but instead of any bars appearing, the MIC control only
> sets LINE to the values 0 to 60.

Silly question(?) ... is there actually audio going into line-in, and is
the TX LED lit when you're doing this? You'll only see ALC bars when
you're actually modulating...


> Also I should note that in my laptop waterfall display, the width is
> only about 400. I have for FL1 the 8-pole 2.8K and for FL2 the 8-pole
> 400Hz. 

Is this a problem? If you have the 400Hz filter selected, you should
see about 400Hz, no?

Sorry if I'm missing something ...

     ~Iain