[Skimmertalk] Newbie Question

[Bob Wilson, N6TV]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Joe <nss at mwt.net> wrote:

> OK now for the problem. at first I thought it was a defect of the Kenwood,
> Obviously when I transmit,, the side tone from the Kenwood goes into the
> skimmer too.  But it's level is way down, barely audible ( I use the side
> tone from the WinKeyer for the side tone source so it is constant
> regardless of the volume setting on the kenwood)
>

Please explain how you are mixing the "side tone from the WinKeyer" (a
little square wave internal speaker?) with the Kenwood headphone jack
audio.  You should just use the Kenwood headphone audio for decoding your
own transmitted CW sidetone, not the WinKeyer's speaker "side tone".

If you whistle and see any changes in the CW Skimmer waterfall, it means a
mic. is picking up audio from in the shack, and you do not want that at all.
If you have mic. plugged into the sound card, unplug it or use the Windows
"Recording Control" to mute the mic. and/or the mic. monitor.  If that
doesn't work (e.g. mic. built in to laptop), plug a stereo patch cable or
bare stereo plug into the PC mic. jack to bypass and mute the built-in mic.

73,
Bob, N6TV