[digitalradio] Neby help with digi modes
Welcome to the group. I have a TS2000 and also an SDR-IQ, I will be glad to help in anyway I can. Being an old-time digital mode enthusiast, I tend to suggest that rookies start the way almost all of us did with Digipan. Free, good, and the easiest to set-up. FL-digi and Winwarbler are perhaps the next easiest. You can start receiving digital modes easily by taking the audio out source (headphone or ext speaker jacks) and connecting it via a cable to the line IN of your computer's soundcard. There are some that worry that the audio could be a little to hot and blow your soundcard, I have done it LOTS of times before and never had a problem. To be on the safe side, you can lower the LINE IN audio level in you computers sound card mixer settings. Simply doing the above will allow you to copy all digital modes supported by your software. 95% of the digital modes you are ever likely to hear are either PSK31 or RTTY. So When it comes to transmitting and receiving, you will need to also connect your transceiver to the computer so that the tones generated by your software and sound card are sent over the air. Thus you have both IN and OUT of your sound card connected to your rig. You can also achieve control of your rig via the software and cause the rig to change frequency, transmit or switch to receive (and a few other things). Do do this, most hams have an interface that goes between the rig and the PC. The interface can be built for about $25 worth of parts, but many hams buy one. These interfaces range from the very simple and effective to the very sophisticated and effective . Some use circuitry that achieves full computer assisted operation and some do do it via simple use of VOX (Signal link). For most operations VOX will be fine but there are some more advanced applications that cannot be used via VOX. Andy K3UK --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, greathoun...@... wrote: I guess I just feel into the newby bucket. Just got off the phone with a buddy, I guess I got talked into learning to do psk31. He said he was told to get a Signallink thingy. Is that the best easy one to get, or is there better? I see that you list Airlink Express, is that a easy one to learn? I have a k'wood TS2000 and a Flex 5000 That I'm trying to fumble thru.. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Oh, he doesn't know how to run it either, and I think he wants me to help him ;-) Thanks Bill N8VWI
Re: [digitalradio] Neby help with digi modes
There is a $19.95 interface kit described on Page 37 of the June QST. 73, Skip KH6TY When it comes to transmitting and receiving, you will need to also connect your transceiver to the computer so that the tones generated by your software and sound card are sent over the air. Thus you have both IN and OUT of your sound card connected to your rig. You can also achieve control of your rig via the software and cause the rig to change frequency, transmit or switch to receive (and a few other things). Do do this, most hams have an interface that goes between the rig and the PC. The interface can be built for about $25 worth of parts, but many hams buy one. These interfaces range from the very simple and effective to the very sophisticated and effective . Some use circuitry that achieves full computer assisted operation and some do do it via simple use of VOX (Signal link). For most operations VOX will be fine but there are some more advanced applications that cannot be used via VOX. Andy K3UK
Re: [digitalradio] Neby help with digi modes
Correction - Page 37 of the July QST. 73, Skip KH6TY On 6/18/2010 2:31 PM, KH6TY wrote: There is a $19.95 interface kit described on Page 37 of the June QST. 73, Skip KH6TY When it comes to transmitting and receiving, you will need to also connect your transceiver to the computer so that the tones generated by your software and sound card are sent over the air. Thus you have both IN and OUT of your sound card connected to your rig. You can also achieve control of your rig via the software and cause the rig to change frequency, transmit or switch to receive (and a few other things). Do do this, most hams have an interface that goes between the rig and the PC. The interface can be built for about $25 worth of parts, but many hams buy one. These interfaces range from the very simple and effective to the very sophisticated and effective . Some use circuitry that achieves full computer assisted operation and some do do it via simple use of VOX (Signal link). For most operations VOX will be fine but there are some more advanced applications that cannot be used via VOX. Andy K3UK -- 73 Skip KH6TY
Re: [digitalradio] Neby help with digi modes
And a good one it is... Good job on it Skip.. 73, Chuck AC5PW Once a Marine... ...Always a Marine OOORAHHH ! Saepe Expertus - Semper Fidelis - Fratres Aeterni Often Tested - Always Faithful - Brothers Forever From: KH6TY kh...@comcast.net To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Fri, June 18, 2010 1:31:41 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Neby help with digi modes There is a $19.95 interface kit described on Page 37 of the June QST. 73, Skip KH6TY When it comes to transmitting and receiving, you will need to also connect your transceiver to the computer so that the tones generated by your software and sound card are sent over the air. Thus you have both IN and OUT of your sound card connected to your rig. You can also achieve control of your rig via the software and cause the rig to change frequency, transmit or switch to receive (and a few other things). Do do this, most hams have an interface that goes between the rig and the PC. The interface can be built for about $25 worth of parts, but many hams buy one. These interfaces range from the very simple and effective to the very sophisticated and effective . Some use circuitry that achieves full computer assisted operation and some do do it via simple use of VOX (Signal link). For most operations VOX will be fine but there are some more advanced applications that cannot be used via VOX. Andy K3UK
Re: [digitalradio] Neby help with digi modes
On 6/18/2010 2:40 PM, charles standlee wrote: And a good one it is... Good job on it Skip.. 73, Chuck AC5PW Thanks, Chuck, I tried to keep things basic and simple in order make it affordable to most hams. 73, Skip KH6TY
