[Elecraft] No bars at all on KX3 digital mode transmit

[Julia Tuttle]

Sure, but when it engages, why doesn't it show full bars, or flash them, or
say "HI MIC" or something?

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 22:29 Brian Hunt <huntinhmb at coastside.net> wrote:

> It’s a self protection feature to keep you from blowing up the audio
> input. The KX2 has it as well. Causes me to scratch my head until I
> remember.
>
> 73,
> Brian, K0DTJ
>
> > On Nov 23, 2021, at 17:36, Julia Tuttle <julia at juliatuttle.net> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know *why* it does that? It's confusing when no bars means
> > either "way too high" or "way too low".
> >
> >> On Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 20:22 AL7CR <al7cr at mooseaviation.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> A classic problem.  You have TOO MUCH input gain.  Counterintuitively
> the
> >> KX 3 ALC will display nothing if over driven.  Turn the input way down
> and
> >> then increase in small steps.  You will find the right setting to show
> ALC
> >> that way.
> >>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2021, at 2:57 PM, Frank O'Donnell wrote:
> >>> After not having used my KX3 in a while, today I set it up with a
> laptop
> >>> on the front porch to send FT8 in WSJT-X with a new AX1 antenna.
> >>>
> >>> I went through the procedure in Don W3FPR's document "Setting Elecraft
> >>> Transceivers for soundcard digital," setting in and out audio levels on
> >>> my MacBook Pro for the thumbnail-sized Sabrent USB soundcard; Mic Gain
> >>> on the KX3; and the power slider in WSJT-X. CAT control is working
> fine,
> >>> and the KX3 is in DATA A mode. The waterfall of incoming signals
> appears
> >>> normal.
> >>>
> >>> I seem to be getting a good signal out, with -1 dB reported from
> Alaska,
> >>> and -7 to -10 dB from the U.S. east coast with the above settings
> around
> >>> midrange, and with the KX3 set for 15w out. However, I don't see any
> >>> bars at all on the ALC meter at any time, even when the USB soundcard
> >>> out, KX3 Mic Gain and WSJT-X power slider are set as high as their
> >> maximums.
> >>>
> >>> Am I forgetting a setting? Anything I can look at to troubleshoot the
> >>> ALC meter function?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks much,
> >>>
> >>> Frank K6FOD
> >>> Southern California
> >>>
> >>>
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