Dear Elecrafters,
I do appreciate the help from Elecraft support, senior supporter Gary and Wayne
himself. After quite a few mails back and forth Wayne did the mail with
"Have you tried setting the K3’s transmit ALC off? If there really is per-mode
behavior, this should help.
First do a TUNE
Dear Elecrafters,
For a year or so I have had an internal K144XV transverter for 144 MHz in my
K3. I have not been using it very much – just a few FM QSOs. I have not seen
any problems.
Now I have just started using K144XV on digital modes – especially FT8 (42% TX
and 58% RX).
I started out
This problem has nothing to do with setting the proper ALC level. Both KB7Q
and I have observed this behavior after carefully setting up our K3s for WSJT-X
operation with the K144XV. KB7Q found if he ran JT65 in USB mode the power
setting behavior of the K144XV was normal but if he ran in
Kjeld,
Are you driving the audio up to 4 bars on the ALC meter with the 5th bar
flashing? This is the "zero ALC" point for the K3, KX3 and KX2
transceivers.
Without sufficient audio The K3 will "power hunt", and that may be what
is happening.
Refer to the article on my website
Dear Elecrafters,
For a year or so I have had an internal K144XV transverter for 144 MHz in my
K3. I have not been using it very much - just a few FM QSOs. I have not seen
any problems.
Now I have just started using K144XV on digital modes - especially FT8 (42%
TX and 58% RX).
I started out
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