[Kenwood] PSK31 and TS2000

Wed, 18 Sep 2002 08:26:42 -0400

If you were touching that input lead to the rig with a wire, or even 
your finger...the hum pickup should trigger the vox. If it doesn't, it 
is not enabled.
...Dave

Robert Lyons wrote:

>Folks,
>
>I'm a new owner of a TS2000 (upgraded from a TS520), having fun with all the
>new bands/modes available to me now. One thing I've recently tried is PSK31,
>but have had problems.
>
>Receive is fine - connecting the ACC2 pin 3 (ref ground pin 4) into my laptop
>(Dell C400 running WinPSKse) microphone port, I can see lots of QSOs and can
>monitor just about anything I can see.
>
>Transmit, however, is not working. Computer speaker (well, headphone)
>out is
>connected to ACC 2 pin 11 (ref pin 12 gnd), but no response to signal there.
>It won't trigger the VOX, and if I manually hit the 'send' button, there's
>no indication of ALC or power output.
>
>I've scoped the audio on ACC 2 pin 11, and it's there OK (hmm - forgot
>to see
>what the Vpp level actually was), I've checked menu 50B for the AF input level,
>tried various settings there, to no avail. I'm running out of ideas.
>
>Can anyone think of anything I've forgotten? Some menu setting that affects
>the mic input on the ACC 2 plug, perhaps? Does anyone know the appropriate
>signal level required at the mic input of the ACC 2 plug? I've not wired a
>PTT control yet, but I can't even get transmission when I manually key up,
>so I doubt a PTT circuit would help. (Otherwise the rig works fine, so its
>probably not a malfunction, just operator error of some kind).
>
>
>On a side note:
>
>I was checked into a local 2M FM net using my TS2000, and had made a few
>comments early in the net. Nobody knew me there, and nobody knew I had a new
>rig. Some time later, people were helping one guy who had poor audio,
>when a
>one of them made an out-of-the-blue comment "...Wow, that KI8AB has the
>GREATEST audio we've heard on this net in a LONG time!"
>
>You can imagine how good I felt about my new radio. :)
>
>73 de Bob, KI8AB
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