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Hi Wald, I forgot to ask earlier: can I get a picture of the backside (trace side) of one of the IF boards while you are doing the repairs? I would like to compare to mine. Many thanks, -- -Mat

I thought I would start a topic on operating quirks of the FT-980 that we have found. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'll start it off with one for operating with a non-QSK Linear Amp: WIth a non-QSK

Cat with my CAT-enabled FT-980 ... during the ARRL CW DX Contest ... -- -Mat Breton, N8TW

... not much fun, and also... boards may be incompatible between vintages. Dave's radio that I was working on had, among other problems, no CW sidetone. It was keying up OK but gave no feedback to

... but for some of us maybe not as much fun! :) The hardest repair I did on the FT-980 was tracking down a broken wire inside of T04 on the AF board. I was able to remove it, repair the hairthin

Gang, There are many FT-980 boards etc on Ebay. Some are local and some come from Europe. Some times it is easier to replace a board than an individual part. 73 Dave K4JRB

Hi Mat, OK, thx for the update.? If you had any problems with the character truncation you would have known that right away... I did figure that out the hard way.? My first QSO with the FT-980 was

I was operating barefoot for the contest, so no QSK. My Henry linear doesn't have QSK capability natively. I've thought about adding it, but it would be expensive and a good-sized project. I use an

I can chime in to this conversation... while Mat was operating ARRL contest I did some work on Dave's faulty FT-980.?? Dave has one that is fully operational and I took his second 980 home for a

Mat, Great on running the FT-980 in the ARRL CW DX. I have had a 980 since 1983. My first is now at N4PL. Have you run into the first character truncation. I found this years ago and never got

I ran my FT-980 through the recent ARRL DX CW Contest. No sweat, Primary fan never came on, no issues. Love that. Used a K1EL keyer, drove it with my ACLog contest software (logger was the keyer

The hamlib team moved the FT-980 backend from Alpha -> Beta status. The next thing I have tried to do is add the clarifier functions. These actually consist of five routines: 1. Set (Turn on/off) the

I can't see any way of directly "activating" the AUX bands via CAT ... I was a bit too optimistic. I'll wait until I crack open the FT-980 again to tap those lines ... perhaps combine a few projects

The Aux Band ROM sets a few things via programming: VCO range, display range, filter selection - and possibly Ham/Gen VFO ID. The RF Board has logic on it that will select the appropriate filter for

While working on the Hamlib CAT interface improvements I've come two items that are "new" to me and are not documented/well-documented: 1. 4 "Hidden" Memories only accessible via CAT 2. 3 "Aux" Bands,

You have to download the entire Hamlib structure (all the rig backends, the support routines, etc), as the various libraries are all cascaded dependencies. But you really only need to do it

I have rigctl installed on the system I'm using to post this, and I downloaded ft980.c this morning. Will that file build a library which I can copy into an existing Hamlib directory? 73 - Fred,

That is awesome! There are a number of "test programs" included with the package. The specific one designed for testing the back ends is "rigctl". The command to make it work with the FT-980? (using

I can compile whatever is needed on this system to test your changes. What are you using for a front end to Hamlib? 73 - Fred, N8YX

Just a quick update: I'm continuing the FT-980 Hamlib development effort. I've completed testing/fixing the existing code, and have now started to add functionality. First up was "targetable VFO":