Showing posts with label WSJTX. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WSJTX. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 01, 2019

WSJT-X Rpi 3

Update: my usual brain-freeze/senior moment. Didn't have the IC-706 CAT USB plugged into the RPI, just the audio.

After some twiddling with the Radio config, WSJT-X is "seeing" and controlling the IC-706 just fine, both CAT and Audio!

So, now onto understanding a bit more about MFJ Intellituner, and then perhaps getting a bit better antenna up.  But I'm back "on the air"

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Monday, September 30, 2019

The Raspberry Pi

I have a Pi 3 B+ that I'm going to try using as my shack "computer".

We'll see how it works out... while I was an expert in unix, it's been about 20 years since I did any serious work, other than minor "shell scripting" of various sorts (ksh mostly. lately a little bash).

So far, I've got a 32Gig SD card that boots up a later version of debian (? I think. I'm not up on the nuances of the various distros, images etc that one can load for linux generally, and the rpi specifically)

On that I've downloaded, and built, hamlib, flrig, wsjtx and gpredict.

WSJTX 2.2.1 runs, but am having trouble figuring out what ports it is using.

For this, I'd like to hook up my IC-706 using my xgcomms audio/cat cable that connects into the DNC port on the back of the rig.

Using this, WSJTX seems to "hear" when I choose a default audio port, but I've not figured out the vox, nor a rig interface, that will work.

More later as I work though this.

The good news is that the IC-706 is "up" again, and I actually copied some signals (WSJTX did decode some stations)..... I feel like the station is slowly coming to life after a long summer hiatus.