[Elecraft] The ins and outs of PSK on the K3?

[tomb18]

I have been running PSK for a couple of months now on the K3 and am wondering
if I am using it in the best way.
I am using DM780 that comes with Ham Radio Deluxe and I usually set the K3
in USB and pick the stations from the waterfall. I also have a P3. Up until
now, I have been using the 2.8 KHz filter setting and have had AGC on.  It
always seemed that there were two flaws in this:  One was that it was not
easy to pick the actual signal using the P3 markers, you always were using
the USB lower frequency point that was some number of hz away from the
signal.  The second was how do you get an actual frequency for the signal
instead of just 14.070 (20M)?  Sometimes you can see stations spotted at
14.072 but finding it was always a search of spots one by one.


Today I played around a bit.  For one, I used the manual notch filter to
remove a really strong signal.  I turned of AGC. This works well.  I also
set the radio in DATA mode instead of USB.  The nice thing about this, is
that I can use the P3 with a +/- 2 KHz span, and see all of the signals in
the usual PSK range, but now I can click on one I see, and it will actually
center it in the passband and give me a frequency readout that seems better
than the standard 14.070 for 20m.  Furthermore, I can use a narrower filter
and the reception seems much better and the decoding more accurate.

So my question is, is my new found way of using the K3 a better way and
possibly the best?
Thanks for any insight.
Tom VA2FSQ



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