[Skimmertalk] Newbie Question

[Joe]

Sorry I should have written that better...

I have the sidetone from the kenwood way low, because it was very 
annoying, if I had it loud enough so it was audible on like 80 or 40 
meters, when I got up to say a marginally open 10 meters and would have 
the volume up conciderably more It was enough to blow your ears out!

So I turned it way down to almost not audible. and use the sidetone from 
the win keyer for sidetome.  But it is not connected to anything it is 
all alone, sidetone wise. Just speaks into the room so to speak.

Joe
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On 10/24/2013 1:48 PM, Bob Wilson, N6TV wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Joe <nss at mwt.net 
> <mailto: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