With the Heil HC4 and HC5 elements (you apparently have an HC5, as do I), you must set the AF GAIN to HI. This should help.
Bill W5WVO William Carver wrote: > I put my K3 on SSB today. I have a Heil headset (with ragchew element) > plugged into the KIO3 stereo phone output and mono mic input. I have > selected rear panel mic input, low gain. I am getting five divisions > on the CMP display with mic gain at 17 and getting reports of "good > audio" and close to 100W indicated on external peak reading wattmeter. > > With the VOX gain at 100, I can get VOX to transmit briefly on the > leading edge of "two" but it doesn't hold in. With VOX gain lower than > 90 I cannot get VOX to operate with speech at all. > > Ideas? > > W7AAZ > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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

