[Ham-Mac] Yaesu 857 and Mac, what do I need?

[K6LMP]

This is great to know.  I recently acquired a Yaesu 897D, and posted  
to the Yahoo chat group for that rig asking if I could use the iMic,  
which I already have. Everyone said, no, no, no, you have to get a  
rigblaster, etc.

But it seemed to me that if I can control the audio level, which one  
can do with cocoamodem, there ought not to be a reason to go with the  
interfaces, except possibly because of ground loop problems.  does  
the iMic provide isolation to prevent ground loops?

lew
K6LMP


On Apr 24, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Randy Terrell wrote:

> #1. Buy yourself an Imic Audio to USB interface off ebay!   Works  
> great and really convenient to use the front USB port for both  
> transmit and receive audio.  Basically retired all
> my sophisticated interfaces and just use the Imic direct to both  
> FT-1000 and TS-2000X in VOX mode.  cocoModem by Kok Chen is the way  
> to go for the Digital modes.
> 73,
> Randy, K9BCT
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