[Elecraft] Rear Mike Jack Question

[Dave Erickson]

This just happened to me. I heard a screeching whine when hitting 
transmit in ft8, turns out the recent update reset all my sound assignments.

73

On 8/23/2020 11:01 AM, Buck wrote:
> I would suspect a Windoze update scrambled your sound assignments.  Go 
> back and check all your settings.
>
> k4ia, Buck
> K3s# 11497
> Honor Roll  8B DXCC
> EasyWayHamBooks.com
>
> On 8/23/2020 11:56 AM, N4ZR wrote:
>> Recently, I began trying to use the rear microphone jack on my K3 
>> with my Yamaha boom mike, instead of using a stand-alone USB sound 
>> card and feeding the signal to the LIN IN jack.  This worked fine for 
>> a couple of weeks, but today when I tried it, I got very loud white 
>> noise driving my radio and amp essentially to full scale. I have MIC 
>> SEL set to RPH BIAS, which has worked in the past. Any MIC gain 
>> setting over 7 drives the amp to full output.  When I pull the mike 
>> plug out of the jack, the problem goes away.
>>
>> Have I inadvertently messed up another setting, or perhaps a failure 
>> in the mike?
>>
> ______________________________________________________________
> Elecraft mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
> Message delivered to radio at disseminator.net 

-- 
Dave Erickson
k0dom
73