Whatever the power output, the ALC, if it's moving at all, should be no more than 'twittering'. You see some horrendous IMD from some stations, one station I won't name on 17m the other day had sidebands spreading over half the 3khz audio band. It's really important to keep that sig clean, and it doesn't take much too distort it.
Congrats on figuring it out anyway. Maybe see you on the mode.
1 - wire your sound card direct to Data Jack in It's SIMPLE It's just standard aud, with your rig set to USB mode. same as U been doing with the mic & speaker.
OR buy a RJ45, crimp the aud to Mic Conector in 2 - Make sure your power out is ok with a signal out 3 - Make sure your computer volume is NOT all the way up. Should only be about 1/3 way up 4 - Make sure you have ALC at 3 bars 5 - Make sure your compressor is OFF 6 - Turn TX EQ OFF 7 - Put the rig on VOX, as usual
Ive pretty much concluded that the Soundcard in my Vista Machine is just not upto par for Digital modes. Maybe a USB interface with a soundcard is in the future.. well see.
Andrew, you will need the ALC turned up....but not all the way of course, you should always have some level of audio coming out without overloading and creating a "dirty" signal. It took me a couple of shots before I made my first PSK31 qso, Once you have this down try some RTTY and Feld Hell (Very fun modes). Mike KC2PLJ
I figured it out last night.. well didnt actually figure it out.. I switched from my Vista desktop to an older XP desktop and for whatever reason, I was able to be heard again. I figure its probably some silly setting in the sound card within the vista machine. Eventually ill troubleshoot it for sake of finding out what was wrong.
Whatever the power output, the ALC, if it's moving at all, should be no more than 'twittering'. You see some horrendous IMD from some stations, one station I won't name on 17m the other day had sidebands spreading over half the 3khz audio band. It's really important to keep that sig clean, and it doesn't take much too distort it.
Congrats on figuring it out anyway. Maybe see you on the mode.
G0IFI 2 years ago
Issue Resolved.
I had my sound output too low, a little ALC never hurt anyone =-)
After giving up for a while I revisited the issue, and sure enough I got it all working no problem.
I Did back down my power to about 35 watts and tune from there with sound.
I was running 100 watts and bringing my sound down to make my watts out around 35 that was my mistake.
once I raised the sound and lowered the power it found its happy place and worked great.
KC2UOO 2 years ago
1 - wire your sound card direct to Data Jack in It's SIMPLE It's just standard aud, with your rig set to USB mode. same as U been doing with the mic & speaker.
OR buy a RJ45, crimp the aud to Mic Conector in 2 - Make sure your power out is ok with a signal out 3 - Make sure your computer volume is NOT all the way up. Should only be about 1/3 way up 4 - Make sure you have ALC at 3 bars 5 - Make sure your compressor is OFF 6 - Turn TX EQ OFF 7 - Put the rig on VOX, as usual
Let us know end.
notforchat 2 years ago
Ive pretty much concluded that the Soundcard in my Vista Machine is just not upto par for Digital modes. Maybe a USB interface with a soundcard is in the future.. well see.
KC2UOO 2 years ago
I use a Signalink USB with my FT-817ND and sometimes even run it with the FT-950, not a bad little setup. I Like your setup, 73 from Syracuse KC2PLJ
mmdrevo 2 years ago
Andrew, you will need the ALC turned up....but not all the way of course, you should always have some level of audio coming out without overloading and creating a "dirty" signal. It took me a couple of shots before I made my first PSK31 qso, Once you have this down try some RTTY and Feld Hell (Very fun modes). Mike KC2PLJ
mmdrevo 2 years ago
Please give us another video of you working psk! I love it, you have a great setup! 73's K1SPL
tryton1000 2 years ago
Have you tried to answer a CQ?
K7AGE 2 years ago
Sure did. no one came back able to copy me.
I figured it out last night.. well didnt actually figure it out.. I switched from my Vista desktop to an older XP desktop and for whatever reason, I was able to be heard again. I figure its probably some silly setting in the sound card within the vista machine. Eventually ill troubleshoot it for sake of finding out what was wrong.
KC2UOO 2 years ago