[Elecraft] seeking help to use fldigi for CW with K3 and KX3

Bob McGraw - K4TAX rmcgraw at blomand.net
Wed Aug 19 16:14:14 EDT 2015


The Squelch level I am referencing is on the FLDIGI screen and not on 
the radio.

73
Bob, K4TAX
K3S s/n 10,163

On 8/19/2015 3:08 PM, Bob McGraw - K4TAX wrote:
> I suspect that Squelch is either turned on and if so the threshold is 
> too high.  I normally run with squelch on but the threshold set very 
> low.  This is the squelch level bar on the lower right side.
>
> I am using FLDIGI version 3.22.13.  I set the mode for PKTLSB when I 
> work CW.  You may also need to adjust the CODEC level via the 
> soundcard in the compter.  This may depend on Windows version. I'm 
> running Windows 10 quite nicely with few issues.
>
> The radio mode is set for TXDATA,   Data A,  and REV for  CW which is 
> LSB.    When I change the FLDIGI mode to CW then the radio follows as 
> I am running CAT control.  So in the upper left of the FLDIGI screen, 
> set the mode to PKTLSB and the lower left should show the CW RX speed 
> and then the next box to the right the CW sending speed as two digits.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> 73
> Bob, K4TAX
> K3S s/n 10,163
>
> On 8/19/2015 10:47 AM, jsdroyster at nc.rr.com wrote:
>> Hello to all!
>> My husband Larry, NC4LR, has a neurological disease and cannot manage 
>> CW manually.
>> I want to enable him to use fldigi for CW since he now uses it for 
>> PSK and RTTY.
>>
>> Don Wilhelm has told me to leave the K3 in Data-A mode, which works 
>> fine for PSK and RTTY using fldigi.
>>
>> Then in fldigi, I choose op mode as CW and leave the box under 
>> frequency as USB (where it is for PSK and RTTY also).
>>   I can see CW signals on the waterfall but nothing gets decoded.
>> I tried changing the WPM setting but this did not help (I understand 
>> you are supposed to get the WPM approximately matching the incoming 
>> signal).
>>
>> What could be preventing decoding??   Any ideas?
>>
>> THANKS for any help anyone can offer!!!!
>>   Julie KT4JR
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