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I got the program to work perfectly except when the freq display is on.
Changing the freq in the waterfall makes the display disappear. Is
this normal or do I need to change something? Mike K9HCK

Hi Cliff

Sorry to hear that. It seems strange that what looks like a handshaking
problem is so erratic. Have you tried stopping RigCat, and using
Hamlib instead ?. I have tried both here since 3.02 came out and both
work fine for me with the little 706MKIIG. Not sure what you mean by
it0 as Windows only refers to serial ports as COM ports. Albeit of
course fldigi is running under cygwin it should still give you com
port numbers.

Hope someone comes up with a brain wave :-).

Cheers

Dave

Dave....thanks for your email help, but I just can't get Fldigi to
initialze the rig control and hold it....
I downloaded the 3.02 version, and it0 now will initialize t1he 570,
but after about 10 seconds, the CTL goes off on the 570 readout....
This radio works fine on cat control on all of the other programs, so
it should work on this program also..
Guess I'll just wait until someone spots the problem...I have tried
everything I know of...may have just had a glitch in the old
brain...har....tnx again.
CLiff...........wb5bsg...

You guys may already know, but just in case.

Fldigi has a new build version 3.02 with added com port
support and hamlib built in.

They work fast WOW!.



Cheers

Dave

Hi Cliff

Just to recap on what we discussed.

Check the baud rate and number of stop bits in the TS570's menu, and
ensure it coincides with the rig.xml file.

Also check to see if the rig xml file has RTS CTS handshaking set, and
see if it is also a menu selectable item in the TS570's menu setup.

Personally I would not have handshaking set, and would disable it in
both the rig.xml, and also in the TS570. Pins 7 and 8 in the TS570
data plug represent RTS, and CTS respectively, and they can be linked
together if there is no menu option, effectively giving the radio a
permanent handshake scenario.

Hope this helps, as it can be a little off putting when playing with
the PTT and CAT options. I know I wondered about the stability of it
myself, but in the end it worked, and has done ever since :-).

As an aside but maybe of interest is that I found the radio must be
switched on and connected of course when booting up fldigi. In my case
with the IC706MKIIG I had forgotten to switch the radio on, and fldigi
couldn't find the cat before it's timeout. When I switched on the 706
fldigi was already running but without cat. So I closed it down, and
reopened it. Still no cat !. I rebooted xp and when it came up the cat
was fine. It serves to show some of the peculiarities which are not
present in other true Windows software. This may not happen with
anyone else, as we usually have our radios on, before we run any
software, but then you never know :-). Maybe modifying the rig xml
file to remove the cat timeout, so it keeps trying, may be a solution
but I haven't tried it...maybe I will hi.

Do keep us posted on what you find though, as I am sure we will all be
interested in compiling as much info on win fldigi as we can.

Cheers

Dave

I run fldigi on my laptop using PuppyLinux, and it does a good job...I
am trying to get the Windoze version to work on my laptop, and have it
all working except the rig control....
I downloaded the xml file for the 570 and after much head banging...did
an edit job using openoffice 2.0, and saved it back to the fldigi folder
under the name "rig.xml"......It doesn't work yet.....
Can anyone walk me through this thing, I am not the sharpest html man
out here, and I like the program......would like to get it going if I
can....Thanks in advance....
Cliff....................WB5BSG.........

OOPS! they are in the Files area not Photos. Sorry about that :-)

de Dave

Hi guys. I have taken some screenshots off my XP system here. To show
the typical folder layout on my xp system. Fldigi has a folder called
fldigi files, usually located in the Documents And Settings area which
contains all it's configuration files, and it's main program folder
which simply has fldigi.exe, flarq.exe, and cygwin1.dll contained in
it. In order to eliminate problems, there should be no other instance
of cygwin1.dll anywhere on the pc.

In any event take a look at the pictures in the photos folder here,
and you will see how mine is configured.

Cheers

Dave G3VFP

I should add that I now have fldigi working okay. With com port ptt,
and cat.

Dave

Hi

I came across fldigi some time ago but never used it as it was a Linux
based platform. However that has changed in 2008 it is now ported to
run in Windows 2K, XP, or Vista. The build in the version I have
started with is 3.01, and Dave W1HJK is working on constant updates
together I guess with other dedicated developers. It ran up without
any particular hitch except for the fact it is limited in it's com
port recognition. I have a US Navigator USB based interface which has
com ports allocated for ptt, cat, fsk, etc etc. Fldigi would recognise
the cat port and utilise it, but would not recognise the seperate ptt
port or have the ability to select more than one port for each
function. I couldn't get ptt to work and as I use the IC706MKIIG which
doesn't support a CAT command string for tx/rx then I couldn't use CAT
to ptt.
So I opted for vox ptt which works fine. I have no doubts that over
time these problems will be tackled. Unfortunately I have no
programming skills otherwise I would have had a go myself :-). In any
event the software is multi mode, and does what it says very well. The
only other curiosity is the best way I can describe it is the attack,
and delay time of the squelch which allows a percentage of decoded
noise to creep in on the screen as text. No doubt everyone is familiar
with that when playing with squelch settings in other software, but
this is different, and I haven't found the right spot to set it so to
say. It may be that it is down to my particular setup, and may not be
a general problem or curiosity :-). If you see the same maybe you
could mention it.

A free software developed by fellow hams in their own time has to be
applauded absolutely no question, and I have no desire to be critical
of fldigi at all, simply my comments are aimed at airing what can be
modified in future builds.

I hope you enjoy using fldigi too, and follow up with your thoughts.

Best Regards, and thanks for joining.

Dave G3VFP