I was configuring my radio to be able to copy the Winter Field Day bulletin tomorrow (1 PM and 7 PM EST), and wanted to use PSK31 as a backup for CW copy (I seem to recall last year that copy was not optimal on any of the stations sending the bulletin)
Anyway that meant firing up FLDIGI, which I had not used in several years. Not only did I need a quick refresher in how to use it, but my versions of FLDIGI and FLRIG were out of date. I’m a firm believer in don’t fix it if it isn’t broken, so I will update things AFTER WFD.
Anyway, I wanted to make at least one PSK31 contact, which I did (thank you Jacob KR0ES for suffering through my poor skills). But I was stymied as to why I was only producing a few watts of power. I had forgotten that there is a transmit level attenuator within FLDIGI. In my case it was set to -12dB, and I had to reduce the attenuation to 0.
See the photo below for the location of the control (bottom right side, highlighted in red)
