Make sure you are using only one PTT method.  CAT  or VOX but never both.  I 
prefer CAT as any signal or any noise on the audio line will trip the VOX and 
thus hold it in transmit. 

Bob, K4TAX


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> On Oct 21, 2018, at 11:04 AM, Bill Frantz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I indeed had MIC BTN on, and turned it off. I the KX3 still didn't go into 
> receive when I pressed the "Halt Tx" button. (MIC BIAS was already off.)
> 
> Another issue I didn't mention before seems to have gotten worse. Sometimes 
> pressing the "XMIT" button on the KX3 doesn't take it out of transmit mode. 
> When I press it it stays in transmit. Press it again and it still is in 
> transmit. It finally goes into receive when wsjt-x gets to its receive phase.
> 
> I am still having problems developing a mental model of what is actually 
> happening here. Maybe I'll have to download the wsjt-s source code and start 
> reading code again. But that's what I retired from years ago. :-)
> 
> 73 Bill AE6JV
> 
>> On 10/20/18 at 3:35 PM, [email protected] (Robert Albano) wrote:
>> 
>> Turning the MIC BTN off fixed the problem.  Now Halt Tx stops the KX3 as 
>> well.
>> 
>> Should MIC BIAS be off as well?
>> 
>> 73 Robert K7RNA
>> 
>>> On 2018 Oct, 20, at 3:26 PM, Robert Albano <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have the same behavior:
>>> KX3
>>> PX3
>>> SignaLink
>>> MacBook Pro
>>> CAT interface
>>> 
>>>> On 2018 Oct, 20, at 2:21 PM, Bill Frantz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>  I have noticed an significant difference between the way my K3 and KX3 
>>>> work with wsjt-x. On the
>> K3, the "Halt Tx" button immediately stops transmission on the radio. With 
>> the KX3, the radio remains in transmit mode, although the computer has 
>> stopped sending audio. I have to press the "XMIT" button on the radio to get 
>> it back to receive mode. It is as if the CAT command to take the radio out 
>> of transmit mode isn't being sent or is not being processed by the radio.
>>>>  Not that on both radios other actions which use the CAT interface, like 
>>>> changing bands from the
>> wsjt-x UI, work correctly.
>>>>  The K3 has been upgraded to the internal sound card/RS232 interface from 
>>>> the K3S.
>>>>  The KX3 is being used with a USB <--> RS232 cable and a home brew audio 
>>>> interface using a
>> mini-dongle USB sound "card".
>>>>  The computer in both cases is a MacBook Pro.
>>>>  Has anyone else experienced this issue?
>>>>  73 Bill AE6JV
>>>>  
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