My experience differs. When the K3S came out, I upgraded all my original K3 radios with all the available K3S parts. I've enjoyed the simplification of the digital audio and the elimination of the Serial-USB adapter. I seldom adjust the audio levels and certainly no more often than with the analog audio. Across a weekend RTTY contest there might be a few very minor adjustments from 10 thtough 80 meters. One annoyance is that the Windows level applet gives only mono adjustment for the K3 stereo LINE OUT but stereo adjustment for the mono LINE IN. It appears that Windows is choosing stereo Playback control for LINE IN and mono Recording control for LINE OUT. There must be a way to correct this, but I haven't found it. 73,Ed W0YK -------- Original message --------From: Wes Stewart <[email protected]> Date: 10/1/18 16:08 (GMT-05:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] CODEC I had a K3 in service (now a spare) for about 8 years before getting a K3S. I didn't do WSJT but some RTTY and PSK using the Line In/Out into my Lenovo laptop internal sound card. Worked like a champ, started with zero and now have 255 countries on RTTY.
I tried to use the K3S USB sound and got tired of the incessant need to fuss with drive and VOX levels. I requested many times for firmware that would save VOX settings by mode to no avail. (When I had another issue, Elecraft Support actually told me that they didn't recommend VOX on digital modes.) I've returned to using the analog audio in/out of the radio and the laptop sound card, which is higher quality anyway. (I have a TASCAM US-100, highly recommended by the resident audio guru, but haven't found it to be any advantage.) This also makes it easier to resort to the spare radio when necessary. Wes N7WS standing by for the flack from the faithful. On 10/1/2018 8:49 AM, Mike Greenway wrote: > I have used for years a K3 on EME with WSJT using Line In/Out audio. > Recently got a K3S and I am now using USB (CODEC) audio in and out of the > radio. In WSJT-10 they have Rate In/Rate Out monitors that should normally > run at 1.000. Using the K3 analog audio these always stayed right on 1.000 > but now that I am using the USB audio they are jumping around quite often and > getting out of range indicated in WSJT with a red marker. I have tried two > different computers and the same result. I tried changing the sample rate in > the computer audio settings but no change in the problem. I plan to go back > to analog Line In/Out on the K3S unless someone has an idea on how to settle > down the Rate In/Out fluctuations. I have not found anything in the K3S that > might affect this. You can reply off line if you like. 73 Mike K4PI ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
