[Elecraft] mmtty and k3 setup

[John]

On 6/11/2013 6:50 AM, Richard Ferch wrote:
> It sounds as if the audio level from the sound card and/or the vox 
> gain is set too high, and vox is being triggered by random noise.
>
> Put the K3 in AFSK A mode and make sure MMTTY's mark tone matches the 
> K3's Pitch setting in AFSK A. With MMTTY sending an idle signal 
> (diddle), adjust the sound card output level and/or the K3's line in 
> gain (using the MIC gain control) so you get 4 solid bars on the K3's 
> ALC meter, with the 5th bar flickering, or as close to that as you can 
> get. Once you have that level set correctly, don't touch it any more. 
> Now adjust the vox gain so that the vox is triggered reliably and does 
> not drop out during transmissions, but not so high that it is 
> triggered by random noise while you are tuning. The vox gain, line in 
> level and sound card level adjustments all interact, and they are 
> different for different sound cards and different radios.
>
> 73,
> Rich VE3KI
>
>
> John wrote:
>
>>      I have had all of this setup before and using  MMTTY and my K3
>> working good.  But now trying to get it all working again with new
>> computer running Windows 7 Ultimate.  My problem is: when I have mmtty
>> running and try to move up and down the band every few khz my rig will
>> key up briefly and I can not move freq. while it is keyed up or other
>> functions on rig will not work either, which is probably because it is
>> keyed up.  When I men briefly it like a fraction of  a second and do it
>> several times before it stops.  I am just wondering what the bar graph
>> on windows several audio mixer should be and what the bar graph setting
>> should be under the mmtty setting in the sound mixer?  If I go above 50
>> on the speakers, the rig keys a a lot. There is also a gray line that
>> runs all the way across my mixer window so you can not raise the mmtty
>> bar higher than the speaker bar graph.  My Vox setting on the rig is at
>> .40 and running 50 watts of power and my mic line is set to 7. To me
>> its almost like the vox setting is wrong, like when you have the
>> microphone  on and set too lightly and make a noise and it keys the rig.
>> Any suggestions would be great.
>
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Rich- Okay thanks for the info.  I will try that out and see what 
happens.  It's a little weird, last night after I sent the email, on was 
messing around with it on 20 meters and all was ok, but will do more 
tuning in the day or so.  Thanks again.
John
KM5PS