[Elecraft] Help setting up digital

Don Wilhelm donwilh at embarqmail.com
Mon Mar 20 20:22:00 EDT 2017


I am sorry if I mislead anyone by my prior response.  I initially 
thought that the poster could not achieve 4 bars or 5 bars on the ALC 
meter.  But after several emails, I realized that he was skipping from 3 
bars to 5 bars with slight changes in the LINE IN gain.

Normally, I recommend that the soundcard sliders be set to 50 to 75% of 
full scale, but that is actually soundcard dependent - and may be Mac 
and Windows dependent as well.

Perhaps a better statement is to set the K3S (or K3) LINE IN gain for 
about mid-scale and then adjust the soundcard sliders to produce the 4 
ALC bars with the 5th one flashing.
Final fine adjustments can then be made with the K3S LINE IN gain which 
will have a finer resolution at mid-scale than at extremely low or high 
settings.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 3/20/2017 7:45 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
> I had exactly this problem with my K3 and Mac. I reduced the output
> level from the Mac using the Sound system control panel, which gave me
> finer control at the K3. If you run Windows or Linux the control will
> have a different name.


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