I have been running PSK for a couple of months now on the K3 and am wondering if I am using it in the best way. I am using DM780 that comes with Ham Radio Deluxe and I usually set the K3 in USB and pick the stations from the waterfall. I also have a P3. Up until now, I have been using the 2.8 KHz filter setting and have had AGC on. It always seemed that there were two flaws in this: One was that it was not easy to pick the actual signal using the P3 markers, you always were using the USB lower frequency point that was some number of hz away from the signal. The second was how do you get an actual frequency for the signal instead of just 14.070 (20M)? Sometimes you can see stations spotted at 14.072 but finding it was always a search of spots one by one.
Today I played around a bit. For one, I used the manual notch filter to remove a really strong signal. I turned of AGC. This works well. I also set the radio in DATA mode instead of USB. The nice thing about this, is that I can use the P3 with a +/- 2 KHz span, and see all of the signals in the usual PSK range, but now I can click on one I see, and it will actually center it in the passband and give me a frequency readout that seems better than the standard 14.070 for 20m. Furthermore, I can use a narrower filter and the reception seems much better and the decoding more accurate. So my question is, is my new found way of using the K3 a better way and possibly the best? Thanks for any insight. Tom VA2FSQ -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/The-ins-and-outs-of-PSK-on-the-K3-tp7558230.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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
