I second that there are some great posts in the
In Feb I posted a schematic for a cable I created last Fall here:
/g/X5105-UsersThen, click on Files
What I learned today that I didn¡¯t know before is that we can view all of the emailed photos in one spot
Under Main -> Photos.
I didn¡¯t know that was an option. Neat :-)
73
Joe
On Mar 21, 2021, at 7:50 AM, DougVL <K8RFTradio@...> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 12:18 PM, Brian wrote:
A USB dongle is the better choice in my experience. The cheap ones work fine.
That's the way I run FT8, too, with external USB sound card. But I'm using an Icom IC-706MkII radio. My first try at setting up the X5105 for FT8 was with the external sound card, too. For portability convenience, the 'direct connection' might be better. But for flexibility, the USB dongle is great. And I've read somewhere else about guys hearing Windows sounds and announcements on the FT8 frequencies because the Windows sounds and alerts weren't turned off, and got sent out along with the FT8 tones.
If your PC or tablet has the single audio jack (TRRS) you can get a USB sound card with the same connector and use just one audio cable instead of two. There would still need to be the "Y" adapter at the CE-17 end of the audio cable, though. There is another thread in this group, with pictures of one member's setup with the TRRS cables. He bought an 8-pin mini-DIN cable for getting the audio signals direct from the radio and didn't use the CE-17 interface. I am also pursuing that method and have made up the adapters and tested it.
At the top of each page, there's a "search" box. To its left, there's a button marked "Topics." Click the 'topics' button to see the list of all topics in the group, then click "Search" and look for terms like 'mini-din' or 'TRRS' or 'usb dongle'. Some great day we'll work up nice, well organized tutorials for subjects like this and post them in the group's WIKI or FILES areas. I hope!
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Doug, K8RFT
