Matt,

Too much junk  in RTTY is usually to much drive to the sound card.  The 
  RTTY contests are over and it will be harder to  find a signal on the 
air to decode.  On to PSK!.

You're jumping back and forth between RX and TX and don't seem to have a 
handle on either one.

  When you transmit and hear tones, are they coming from the radio, or 
the pc's speakers?

If from the radio (tones from radio, but not going into TX)  it's a 
vox/tx drive issue.   If the tones are coming out of the pc's speakers, 
I think  you may not have the right sound card selected and are trying 
to transmit on the pc's  sound card.

The fact that you saw some call signs yesterday, would lead me to think 
you are at least hooked up correctly, with the mini din plugged into the 
center jack of the 3 behind the little cover.  It's a snug fit.  Are you 
sure it is plugged in   firmly?  On mine, the little notch on the metal 
barrel of the plug is at the 12 o'clock position.

Don't worry, it's all just a bad dream.

73, Steve KW3A
On 7/19/2015 8:44 AM, Matthew Chao wrote:
> No smoking or zapping sounds yet.  Adjusted the volume, and now, I'm
> getting garbled characters.  Probably should have left well enough
> alone, but had to tinker, hi.  Does that mean the volume's now too
> low?--Matt, N1IBB.
>
> At 10:37 PM 7/18/2015 -0400, you wrote:
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> Been playing in the contest.  I did see John responded to  your other
>> posts.   He said the same thing I had mentioned, that you need to follow
>> the instructions for what levels to set within Windows for the SL's
>> sound card
>>
>> The "overflow" message means too much drive for the  sound card.   So
>> you should lower the level on the RX drive knob.
>>
>> On a previous question:
>>
>>    I don't think there is a hot key to get to the RX window.    This is
>> where you and your screen reader become fast friends.
>>
>> Don't worry.  Next week you get to tackle PSK.
>>
>>
>> If you smell smoke, pull the plug and run.
>>
>> 73, Steve KW3A
>>
>> On 7/18/2015 10:24 PM, Matthew Chao wrote:
>>> Hi, Folks.  Somehow, I messed up my MMTTY settings.  When I run the
>>> test files, I get overflow, and no text.  Is the mic volume on my SL
>>> USB too high?  What happened?  Thanks.--Matt, n1ibb.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
>