I recommend finding someone with a P3 or other spectrum display and trying this on *your* K3 rather than looking at pictures of “a K3”. Running with insufficient audio drive, which is what you are doing, has known problems, which you are experiencing.
I would be glad to do it with my KX3 and PX3, but I’m on the other side of the US. wunder K6WRU Walter Underwood CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Jul 20, 2023, at 7:33 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > OK guys - rather than reply individually, let me try to pull everything > together in one message. > > In a previous effort at FT8 I followed the standard advice to set the power > slider in WSJT-X (on the lower RIGHT side) so that my K-3 showed 4 bars on > the ALC meter, just below the threshold for ALC starting, and that seemed to > work fine. Then a technically-qualified local ham showed me spectrum > analyzer images of a K-3 at 4 bars versus at no bars, and the difference was > startling - the no bars signal was clean and narrow, while the 4-bars signal > looked like some of those SSB sigs we hear during contests, wide and with > many artifacts. I am not going to identify my source here, but I'm fairly > sure he reads this reflector, so maybe he'll join the discussion > > Anyway, I'm kind of at sea - WSJT-X works fine with no bars - I've finished > 12 and 17M, as well as digital DXCC in the last few weeks, following his > advice. But the hunting typically takes almost 20 seconds of transmitting - > roughly 1 1/2 FT-8 cycles - to reach full power - and happens every time I > change bands, which puts me behind the curve if I switch bands, see someone I > need, and have to spend 1 1/2 transmit cycles getting up to full power before > I can call him effectively. > > 73, Pete N4ZR > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to wun...@wunderwood.org ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
