[Elecraft] K3s & P3 used with Data

Bob McGraw K4TAX rmcgraw at blomand.net
Fri Feb 1 10:39:21 EST 2019


Thanks and always glad to assist.   And glad you have the issue resolved.

73

Bob, K4TAX

On 2/1/2019 9:22 AM, Bob wrote:
> Both Bob K4TAX and Bill NR4C figured out the problem...
>
> I've been using my K3s for a few years on all bands except 60 meters. So my
> original setup was from a long time ago.  At that time I set all my active
> bands to DATA MD DATA A.  When I tried 60 meters for the first time
> yesterday to help someone who needed RI for their WAS, I didn't think to
> check DATA MD on the 60 meter band.  I suspect it defaults to AFSK, which
> is a LSB mode.
>
> So moral of the story -- if you have to be in REV DATA you probably haven't
> set the DATA MD to DATA A
>
> 73, Bob, WB4SON
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 9:16 PM Nr4c <nr4c at widomaker.com> wrote:
>
>> Which DATA sub-mode were you using. There are two USB and two LSB
>> sub-modes.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> ...nr4c. bill
>>
>>
>>> On Jan 31, 2019, at 6:15 PM, Bob <WB4SON at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I've been using my K3 & K3s for years using the DATA mode.  It has worked
>>> as if it were in the USB mode, and shows on the P3 scope to the right of
>>> the dial frequency just like a USB signal would.
>>>
>>> Today I tried 60 meters for the first time.  I could pick up signals and
>>> decode them just fine in USB mode, and the P3 showed the signals to the
>>> right of the dial frequency as expected.  However, when I shifted the
>> radio
>>> into DATA mode, the P3 seemed to shift as if it was showing a double
>>> sideband signal (half below the suppressed carrier and half above).  At
>>> this point, when in DATA mode, nothing would decode until I selected REV
>>> DATA.  The result of that was that calculated frequencies were wrong
>>> (appearing that signals were significantly outside the US channel limit.
>>>
>>> Am I missing some setting, or is there something unique about how the
>> DATA
>>> mode works on 60 meters?
>>>
>>> 73, Bob, WB4SON
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