[Elecraft] k3 and mmtty

[John McBee]

I have been having trouble in the wpx rtty test, my k3 has been having 
issues with mmtty keying the rig.  I have the in/out lines on k3 going 
to in/out on sound card as they should, and the ptt-key set to drt-rts.  
The problem is, part of the time the mic setting is set to abt 3-4 with 
5 bars solid on ALC, if I go below 3 it drops to 3 bars flashing.  I can 
not get 4 solid bars with 5 flashing.  But at times the k3 will stop 
transmitting unless I turn the mic gain to abt 21 then it will start 
transmitting again.  I have had this issue all weekend.  Could this be a 
problem with my sound card?  I have a second card in the computer but 
can not get it too work right either.


Setup up as follows:
K3 out to line in on computer
K3 in to line out on computer, I have had hooked to microphone, but same 
problems occur so using line out(headphones)
K3 ptt set to dtr-rts
K3 mic menu to Line in
Mic gain set to 3-4 when working and a lot higher when problems starts.
MMTTY sound card settings are :  Line in-Reception,(Realtek soundcard)
Transmission-Speakers (Realtek)
Also have sound card settings set to  Line in is set to 50% and Wintest 
slider set to 70%

Any thoughts would be great.  Can't enjoy WPX RTTY like this...

John
km5ps