[Elecraft] K3S USB audio output needs to be adjustable in Menu

[dgb]

Can't help but wonder, is anyone adjusting the recording and playback in 
Windows?

Mine works fine by adjusting those. I don't do any vhf though.

73 Dwight NS9I


On 6/26/2017 7:59 PM, Jim Rogers wrote:
> Richard - I second your report, there is no fine adjustment for the 
> USB audio on the K3s either in received audio or transmitted audio. 
> When the band is noisy, I have to reduce LIN OUT to 01 or 
> alternatively reduce the overall system gain with the RF gain (which 
> in the case of the K3 and K3s is IF gain).
>
> When operating meteor scatter on 2M with an Elecraft K144XV 
> transverter I had to reduce the audio drive from the JT65 software to 
> 50% to prevent RF power out overshoot and hunting, typical in 
> over-driven closed loop systems. This allowed me to advance LIN IN and 
> the end result was the power detection system of the K3s settled down.
>
> There are work-arounds.
>
> Jim, W4ATK
>
> K-Line, K2/10
>
>
> On 6/26/2017 6:11 PM, Christopher Hoover wrote:
>> USB audio with the default settings has been fine for me from the first
>> day.     Check your settings?
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Dick via Elecraft <
>> elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Elecraft,
>>>
>>> When feeding the audio from the K3S USB port to the CPU, the K3S audio
>>> level is extremely high and way too hot for good performance on many
>>> digital
>>> modes.
>>>
>>> Example, even with my CPU's sound card set at the lowest possible 
>>> level of
>>> "01" my K3S is hitting the JT-65 software with a super strong signal 
>>> that
>>> is  much higher than the software wants to see and performance is 
>>> degraded.
>>> The same is true when operating RTTY using MMTTY or 2Tone software.
>>>
>>> The USB audio output on the K3S needs to be adjustable in the K3S 
>>> Menu as
>>> it was on the K3 Serial port.
>>>
>>> I wrote to you a few months ago about this without a positive reply.
>>> Please address this serious issue.
>>>
>>> Thank you-
>>>
>>> Richard Van Zandt- K9OM
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In a message dated 6/2/2017 7:28:48 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
>>> elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net writes:
>>>
>>> If you  are using Line Out with a fixed gain setting to feed audio to
>>> WSJT-X,  adjusting the AF control will not do anything. What I do is 
>>> leave
>>> my RF  gain control at its normal position (around 3 o'clock) and 
>>> use the
>>> slider  at the lower left in the WSJT-X window to compensate for  gain
>>> variations.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Rich VE3KI
>>>
>>> W3FPR wrote:
>>>
>>>>   Bret,
>>>>
>>>> You may have better luck with running the RF Gain full  and adjusting
>>>> with the AF gain.  That way the RX AGC will smooth  out variations 
>>>> in the
>>>> signal level.
>>>>
>>>> 73,
>>>> Don  W3FPR
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