Stephen Prior wrote: > > Thanks for the advice David, I shall do as you and Dave KD1NA suggest - at > least that way I suspect the setting of the output level from the > soundcard > will be less critical. With other radios I have owned such as the > IC-7400, > it was recommended practice to have the power control at 100W and set the > output power on psk solely by audio input level - it was a bit touchy > sometimes! > > I have a fan sitting on top of the heatsink, it's blowing down at the > moment > and that seems to cut down the amount the noisy little fan comes on quite > noticeably. > I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned it but I am sure one of the changes introduced way back when the revision 2 firmware was released for the K2 was to add a "soft" ALC in data mode that did not have an adverse effect on signal quality. Perhaps Lyle can comment since I am sure that he originally came up with a mod for this that was eventually incorporated in later production models.
I set the power control to 5W on my K2/10 and adjust the audio level so that 1 bar of ALC is showing. This gives a consistent output level that does not normally need to be readjusted even when changing bands. ----- Julian, G4ILO K2 s/n: 392 K3 s/n: ??? G4ILO's Shack: www.g4ilo.com Zerobeat Ham Forums: www.zerobeat.net/smf -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Psk-tp14352175p14370256.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
