[Elecraft] KX3: no ALC bars on transmit SOLVED

[Lyle Johnson]

Yes, or so the 5 bars are showing.  Traditional ALC doesn't commence 
until after the 5th bar, so should be OK.

73,

Lyle KK7P

On 7/14/15 11:13 AM, Michael Rudolph wrote:
> Thank you David and everyone else.  The problem was that for some mysterious reason, FLdigi lost its proper configuration settings – all of them.  It was confusing because I was receiving just fine; it was only the transmit that was affected.
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> Now that I am getting the ALC bars, I find that tuning the MIC control is so critical that I cannot get a flickering 5th bar.  I jump from 4 bars to 5 bars.  Is it acceptable to back off from 5 bars until the 5th bar just disappears and 4 bars remain?
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> Michael N3IRT
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> From: David Orman [mailto:ormandj at corenode.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 10:33 AM
> To: Michael Rudolph
> Cc: Elecraft Reflector
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX3: no ALC bars on transmit
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> In addition to not enough output, too much output can do the same thing. It took me a long time after switching laptops to figure out I had my output too _high_ and that was causing no ALC bars to display. Since you're using fldigi, I suggest the following:
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> 1) Hookup headphones/speakers to your output. Hit 'tune' in fldigi, make sure you're getting output.
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> 2) Turn 'tune' off in fldigi. Turn your output volume all the way down. Connect your radio. Set mic gain to 20.
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> 3) Hit 'tune' in fldigi again, and slowly turn up the volume on your computer until you start to see ALC bars appear.
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> Hope this helps,
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> David
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> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Michael Rudolph <mrudolph at therabbi.com> wrote:
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> All,
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> I have my KX3 connected to a computer and am running FLdigi.  For psk31, I
> set the KX3 to VOX, and the mode to DATA-A.  When I send characters from the
> FLdigi, I see no bars in the ALC display.  What could be wrong?
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> Michael N3IRT
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