[Elecraft] K3--Digital Mode Question (New Tricks...Old Dog)

[Dick Roth--KA1OZ]

Iain and Elecrafters--

Thank you for your responses and guidance!  Iain hit the nail on the
head with his third possibility...audio into a microphone!  I was using
a never before used sound system built-in to the motherboard and had the
incorrect gain control (microphone) turned up instead of the Line In.

-- 
73 de Dick, ka1oz

Elecraft K3/100(K) #859
G5RV Doublet
Titan-DX Vertical


On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 23:05 -0700, iain macdonnell - N6ML wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Dick Roth--KA1OZ <raroth7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Finally waded into digital modes with FLdigi, but have a K3 question
> > regarding Line Out control.  From what I could tell from the manual,
> > Line Out to my PC ought to be a level adjusted by Config: Line Out.
> > However, each time I turned down the AF control, the signal to FLdigi
> > went away.  What am I missing? (I'd like to operate without the constant
> > whine of PSK ringing in the shack.)
> 
> Maybe you have the audio cable connected to the phones or speaker jack
> on the K3, instead of line out?
> 
> Or maybe you have CONFIG:LIN OUT set to =PHONES? Tap '1' to turn that
> off whilst in CONFIG:LIN OUT to toggle that.
> 
> Or maybe the computer is actually taking audio from a microphone
> instead of its line in, and you're picking up the RX audio
> acoustically? If you clap your hands, does it make a pattern on the
> waterfall? ;)
> 
> 73,
> 
>     ~iain / N6ML