I'm wondering if diversity receive might help with RTTY decoding, to
reduce deep fades.
I shorted together the left and right channels from the Line Out jack
on the back of the K3, and fed them to right input of computer sound
card. (The left input of sound card is connected to a TS-850, for
SO2R.)
I was concerned that bridging the two audio channels in this way would
cause the diversity separation in the headphones to be lost (e.g., when
operating CW, and having the bridged audio line for RTTY decoding still
connected). But the headphones seem to still work as before, with
separate channels audible, L-R. I'm guessing there's a buffer amplifier
that feeds the rear panel line out jack, so that shorting those channels
doesn't effectively short the other audio L/R outputs (e.g.,
headphones).
Does anyone know for sure? 'Anyone see a downside to this approach?
(I recognize I might be trading one problem for another: instead of QSB
in one channel, I now might sometimes have the L- and R-channels equal
in amplitude and out of phase, leading to a nil combined signal for the
decoder at odd intervals. But that seems a low probability.)
Tnx,
/Bill, K2PO
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