[Elecraft] K3 SSB complaints I am getting

[Gary Smith]

@ Jay,
> Review the MIC CONFIG settings and maybe your TX equalizers 
settings

Never used them but just looked at the Tx EQ and it is flat @ 0.
Mic select is front panel, MIC+LIN is off

@ Bill, Mic is an old Heil HM-5 desk mic & the element is an old Heil
HC-4. Nothing plugged into the audio jacks except my Bose QC15 
headset is in the phone jack. The element only has two connections, I
haven't set bias anywhere. Maybe I should experiment with the bias 
settings but I don't see that in the menu or config options.

Gary

> What sort of mic arrangement?
> 
> Is other stuff plugged into the audio in /out  jacks..
> 
> Maybe a bit of rf getting into audio Jain,  that is remove as many
> connections as possible from the radio ...
> Setting sound ok...
> Maybe your mic doesn't need bias.....
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Mar 23, 2013, at 7:15 PM, "Gary Smith" <Gary at ka1j.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have a K3 and my antennae are 350 feet from the QTH. I run
99.9%
> CW 
> > and rarely ever get on SSB, about the only time I do so is to
join
> in 
> > with a nice net on 160M & that makes it twice so far this year
> that 
> > I've been on SSB. Both times I have been told my audio is broken
> up 
> > and the latest description is "It sounds like its flat-topping".
> When 
> > I listen in the monitor I sound as good as I'd expect when
> listening 
> > to my own voice; doesn't sound like me but its not obviously 
> > distorted to me either.
> > 
> > Mic gain is set at 30, compression 7. I've tried other settings
> like 
> > zero compression and running the mic gain so low my LP-100A
> wattmeter 
> > showed 200W out on peaks from an Alpha amp. I have no complaints
> from 
> > my CW signal. 
> > 
> > I'd like to have a scope or monitor to view my signal but I
don't
> so 
> > I need to uncover this curiosity without nice spectrum gear to
> help 
> > me.
> > 
> > Idears?
> > 
> > 73,
> > 
> > Gary
> > KA1J
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