[Elecraft] K3 How to get MMTTY to work with K3

[Fred Jensen]

I did it like Joe explains, works great.  One note:  Be sure MENU:MIC 
SEL is set to LINE IN and LINE+MIC to OFF.  LINE+MIC ON will leave your 
microphone hot with room noises, dogs barking, and the like.  You can 
ask me how I know this but you can probably figure it out without my 
help. :-)

The 4 bars ALC [5th maybe flickering occasionally] can be set while in 
TX TEST, so you're not making any RF.  Then go into TX NOR and set the 
power you want with the PWR control.  Unlike our fathers' radios [I 
guess that would be mine at this age], you *cannot* control power output 
with the MIC/LINE IN gain.

For RTTY with MMTTY, I use AFSK A.  It is LSB, and having the pitch of 
the signals go up as I tune up in frequency makes more sense to me than 
DATA A which is USB.  I can't hear 2125 Hz at all so I set the K3 PITCH 
to 915 [as low as it goes].  Be sure to set MMTTY to 915 also.  The 
lower pitch will also reduce the "RTTY Headache" from the higher pitch.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
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On 4/9/2015 3:21 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>
>> It's not easy to bind Balance. Here's how in works in Win7. First,
>> click on the Speaker icon on the task bar. Then click on Mixer. Then
>> click on the icon in the top left corner for the sound card you're
>> using. You should see Speaker Properties. Click on the Levels tab.
>> The Balance tab is on the right in that window.
>
> In either Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 it is far easier to use Control
> Panel | Sound ...
>
> Select the Playback tab ... double click on the output device ...
> in the properties dialog, select the Levels tab then click on the
> "balance" button.  However, since the K3 Line In is mono, you only
> care about the left channel.
>
> It is more important to set the K3 MENU:MIC SEL to Line IN while in
> data mode (AFSK A or DATA A) so the Line Input is active for data
> modes!  Once you've done that the "mic gain" control on the front
> panel controls the modulation level (set for 4 bars of ALC) and
> turn on VOX unless you have configured MMTTY/FLDIGI to control PTT
> using radio commands.
>
> 73,
>
>    ... Joe, W4TV