Hello guys, Well, it just happened when I started to call CQ and I have no idea why. The MON was indeed also set to zero, which I discovered first. Strange things seem to happen with this radio (Windows-like), but I still enjoy it :-)
73 de Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Zilmer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: "SM6CKU" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 2:53 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] SM6CKU earlier this morning The CW pitch has a bottom limit of 300 Hz. He probably had the MON setting at ZERO, which would have the same effect as described. 73, matt W6NIA On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 07:40:11 -0400, you wrote: >Ben, > >That would explain it. A pitch of zero would put the audio in the sub >audible range and probably put it below the bandpass of the audio >amplifiers and filters resulting in muffled or no audio in CW. If you set >your IF bandwidth high enough, you would have been able to hear stations >that were quite far away in frequency but not the ones you were tuned to. >I'm curious as to how the pitch got to zero, I thought the K3 had a lower >limit around 400 Hz for the CW pitch. Anyway glad you found the problem. > >73, >Chuck - AA3CS > >Sent from my iPhone > >On Jun 4, 2011, at 7:02 AM, SM6CKU <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I found the problem. For some reason the pitch of the sidetone was zero >> and was adjusted and sidetone OK. But how can that "mute" the receiver in >> CW mode? >> Now everything is normal but these small things makes me nervous..... >> >> 73 de Ben >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > >______________________________________________________________ >Elecraft mailing list >Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >Post: mailto:[email protected] > >This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
