Hi David, check out SydneyOwl/g90toolkit on GitHub. He's been looking at the g90, which I believe shares a lot of commonality with the g106. It's too good a radio to let the software cripple it.?

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I had mine out in Wisconsin the last couple of days for a POTA activation. Between the g106 and a cheap 50 Watt amp, it's just great. And it runs for hours on a 20Ah battery.

Rich,

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i checked your file you posted and maybe its my end but i dont see a schematic.

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David

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Hello all,

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Im a g106 owner and am very happy with the results. bought mine on a late auction on Ebay. fellow posted it for quick sale and picked one up for about $130

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have used mine mostly for CW but also checked into several nets with SSB.

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Maybe someone could hack the software ? would be a nice thing to tweek the software on things.

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Anyway , the ones who are giving this little rig a bad rap, probably expects? like everyone here has stated, a $2000 rig.

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just my take of it all. LOVE THIS RADIO.

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David

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I'm a happy owner of one, after the latest firmware, and a simple modification of the microphone, this little radio work very well!

The mic mod I did is drilling a bigger hole where the mic element is (open up the mic and remove the board before drilling)

73 Geurt PD4GB

Agreed Randy. I bought one a few months ago when Radioddity had a decent sale on, as a rig to take on the road for POTA and avoid beating up my "real" radio. The reviews and press I've seen were pretty objective. An I can just throw it in a bag without worrying too much.

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Now if we can just get Xiegu to release the source code so we can fix the rough edges in the software. They haven't seemed that interested in doing that for the G106, mainly just the G90. (Edit: they've been tweaking the G90. Definitely NOT releasing source code). Much like Quansheng HT sales soared after third party software mods started being available, I think this thing could be a little spitfire if the software kept pace with the hardware.

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Jack W9TNC

I would assume that you guys have been seeing some of the new reviews on the g106 and they have been encouraging. When people take into account what the little radio costs and it's capabilities it's actually quite a value. It works as well as many of the other little QRP radios out there and then some. I've been looking at YouTube and at eham reviews and lately when people unlike K8MRD radio look at the rig and take into account the purchase price it gets a good review.? If you expect it to perform like a $2,000 radio your dreaming.??

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Randy AB9GO

I've got it down to zero transistors. I bought the following cable on eBay: "FT8/FT4/JT65/PSK Audio DATA Interface Cable XIEGU G90 X5105 G106C HF Transceiver". The cost was $16.90 including shipping. The seller's eBay name is bd7-maple. It works great!

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Hi,? I'm learning CW and have been using FLdigi to help with decoding/encoding on an X6100.? The SSB, keyboard-only transmitting doesn't help me practice with a keyer.? Does anyone know of a G106 set up that would let me:

- Decode with FLdigi, CWTX, or etc.

- Encode/transmit via either my keyer or thru my laptop keyboard.

I'm getting confident enough to try the keyer as a POTA hunter, but I'd really like the backup of the keyboard for a while!

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Thanks for any help!

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Tony KE1TLG

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Hey Tony,

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?Yes it's a mono, I suppose because the speaker is a single in the mic... but also probably cost savings...

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?You'll see here in the forum there's been some posts by the CW/DATA heads here we've got a work around to get a headphone in the front and it pipes in the audio to both sides of the headphones though not stereo it feels better to have both ears getting the same sound.

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?There's also a nice enclosure I've seen on the thingverse for 3D printing to make a box that will give you a better headphone jack and spot for the mic for SSB use.

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? Hope that's something of an answer for you.

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Hi all.? New to the group.? I thought the headphone jack on the G106's handheld mic was stereo.? I'm only getting sound to one side with it.? I've tried several stereo headphones that work correctly on the X6100, but don't work properly on the G106.? Am I missing something?? Is the G106 jack supposed to be mono?? Thanks for any help!

Hi Jerry, I have used an external powered speaker (rechargeable battery)? and it works great. I have a Bush Acorn Bluetooth speaker. You might not be able to find this exact model but there are lots available. The only tricky bit is finding one with an AUX input. You will also need to make an adapter for the microphone connecter as this is where you access the headphones/speaker connections. I have tried various methods but I think the best is to use an RJ9 telephone splitter and then make up an RJ9 to 3.5mm jack socket cable see attached photos. You can then plug the microphone and speaker cable into the splitter.

Hope this helps

Dave G6AWF

I was going to try the G-106 at a pota park today but I forgot my headphones and the internal speaker was just to low for me to hear irt well. I was set up close to a road so I had too much road noise. Has anyone tried an external spaker and did it help. Also what speake did you use?

Thank you

Jerry

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Hi all,

I purchased the mic element from Digikey. ?Yes it does have more output but the clarity is no better than the original microphone. ?

I also purchased the "MASH-style" handset from eBay. ?No significant change in audio and did not work in transmit. ?I would not suggest it.

So we are back to square one. ?I have firmware 1.3 installed. ?
CW keying seems just fine. ?
A probable good change would be to use a different mic case.

Remember folks acoustics is user specific. ?
My voice is not like yours and it still is open for modification. ?
My mic has the hole drilled in it and yes that did help the articulation.
de KG9H?

the mic element is rated for 1 to 10 vdc like the generic condensers.The schematic on the pdf of the mic shows? the mic has 2 teminals one positive one neg. and one + 3v vs

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I would just run the power up to the mic via one of the wires that may not be used 2 wires for mic and 2 wires for ptt and both have a common so basically 3. I havent studied the mic wiring in detal but if 2 wires are common to ground, then you could dead end it in the mic by clipping the one ur going to use and tying together the mic ground(-) and ptt ground and feed 3vdc up that dead free wire allowing you to tag the + side of mic with a 2.2k resistor, and of course detaching that wire at radio end so its not grounded. and if the g-106 doesnt have a coupling cap for ac in line at the radio, it can be added in the mic on the + side.

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Just my opinion.

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Hope this helps.I would do everything i could in the mic so the only thing needed might be a blocking cap for the + coming back from the mic, and jst feeding voltage up one of the freed up wires.Just my hillbilly view of it.

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David

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Well since its a electret condenser like in most mics, i would say that might be the range of voltage on it.maybe the minimum?

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regular electret condenser replacements? have a range of 1.5 -10 VDC listed on specs on rated voltage. im thinking urs is also rated voltage.

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David, I just received the microphone thanks for the information. ?

I see it requires 3VDC but appears to have more output than others. ?
Unclear what the G106 output has. ?Of course I had the hole drilled in the microphone for a few weeks now and it did work pretty good. ?

Any guidance on the installation? ?
de KG9H

FYI, I did buy some sort of microphone on eBay (looks like something Radar O’Riley would use) and it does have some great audio on it. ?Feel like I need to get a helmet with a spike on it, LOL.

You may be on the right track though. Time to delivery will tell.

I was reading a posting on another forum which mentioned low audio on the microphone element. they stated that the following mic element has more gain. and improved the audio quite a bit just by replacing the mic element . with the g106 with the drilling of the hole this should give quite a bit of push on the audio.

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what do you all think?

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here is the link

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David

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