[Elecraft] K3 Line out level and Digikeyer

Trevor Smithers tsmithers at cix.co.uk
Thu Oct 1 06:49:00 EDT 2009


For digimodes like WSPR I use a Microham Digikeyer and set the K3 Line Out level to 10, which 
is the maximum recommended before the possibility of distortion is introduced. At this level I have 
to set the Digikeyer RX input control to max to obtain proper decoding etc and being at maximum 
leaves no room for further adjustment.

I usually like to set in/out controls to around 50% but in this case it would mean setting the K3 
Line Out to around 40 to be able to reduce the Digikeyer input by 50%

So, is Line Out level 10 still the max before distortion/saturation of the output transformers occurs 
or is there any headroom. If 10 is still the number then fine, as the object is to provide the 
cleanest signal to the DigiKeyer soundcard even if the input does have to be set to max.

73
Trevor  G0KTN


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