[Ham-Mac] Yaesu 857 and Mac, what do I need?
Euphoria
eforia at start.no
Tue Apr 25 15:23:19 EDT 2006
Hi Dick!
I have som comments to what you write, but first let me thank you for
letting me know of your experience. It's SO usefull... I have a
"Black hole" of knowledege about the way the radio and the Mac (Or PC
for that matter) speak together.
It's long time ago, long before I joined the Ham-communety (Been
licenced for about 1 year now), that I bought the iMic for
digitalizition of old LP records. Worked perfect back then, but I
haven't used it for a long time. I found it very useful for getting
that job done. I will try it again for connecting the FT-857 to the
Mac now. Great idea! I must find a way to make a galvanic separation
of the two... Maybe you have a sollution to that to? Don't wont to
fry the soundcard or the radio.
So to using the VOX "mode". I have som experience to that to. It
seems like my Kenwood TS-440S interface is only keying from the PC
(With HRD) on 20m band... Go figure!?! I really didn't care and told
my self that I can work around it by using the VOX modus, so why
bother... And again, how to turn of TX when the transmission is
finished? On the Kenwood it's easy: It's a switch on the top of the
radio.
I'm on a new pathe here... Inventing the wheel one more time, so to
say...:-) I know that I have to "redraw" totaly the way I operate on
the radio, given the new platform, new radio and new program. And
totaly new "cabeling" of the equipment. But what the heck! I'll just
have to learn it all over again:-) No problem, thanks to people like
you guys here!!
Best 73's!! LA6UOA/Trygve:-)
Den 25. apr. 2006 kl. 14:09 skrev Dick Kriss:
> LA6UOA,
>
> Randy K9BCT's recommendation will probably with a Yaesu; however,
> note he
> has to operate in VOX mode. For a number of reasons I do not care to
> operate digital modes in VOX.
>
> The primary reason I selected the SignaLink SL-1+ interface was due
> to its
> unique Auto-PTT feature. The SL-1's Auto-PTT detects a transmit
> signal from
> the Mac and closes the PTT line to the rig. This was an easy way
> close the
> PTT line and let me get away from having to operate in the VOX mode.
>
> The secondary reason for selecting he SL-1+ interface was for an
> extra $10
> Tigertronics delivered it with a cable with an already soldered 13-
> Pin DINN
> plug to interface to the back of my Kenwood TS-570S(G). They
> supply cables
> of other rigs too. Life is too short for me to every solder
> another 13-Pin
> DINN plug.
>
> A few words of caution regarding the use of the Griffin iMic. I
> use the
> iMic on the transmit side ONLY to retain the Mac internal sounds
> but found
> it near useless on the receive side with a Kenwood TS-570S(G) and the
> SignaLink SL-1+ interface. Yes, I know the iMic is an A-D converter;
> however, in my setup it acted like a major attenuator to the audio
> output
> from the rig. The signal level output from the iMic was too low to be
> detected by the G4 and the cocoaModem software. For this reason I
> use a
> simple stereo phone plug from the output of the SignaLink SL-1+
> interface to
> External Microphone/Line-in port on rear if the G4 and it works
> perfect. I
> gave up trying to use the iMic in the receive path. Some things
> are just
> too hard.
>
> Some Mac users have had very good luck with iMic for receive with
> other
> rigs, so my recommendation is for you to borrow one and try it
> before you
> spend the money. FYI, I tried both versions of the iMic and had
> the same
> receive problem.
>
> If you buy a used iMac, try to get the older version with the
> chipset the
> supports 8, 16 an 20 bits. The newer iMic uses less expensive
> chipset that
> only supports 8 and 16 bits. The old and new version look
> identical. One
> way to determine the version is use your OSX Audio MIDI Setup.app
> and check
> the properties. The cocoaModem software is setup to handle either
> 16 or 20
> bits.
>
> Before you do anything ...... think about how you are going to
> close the PTT
> line between your computer and the rig. This will set the stage
> for you
> other interface decisions.
>
> You can get by without an interface by using a patch cable between
> your
> rig's Ext Speaker to the External Microphone/Line-in port on your
> Mac. This
> is a good way to SWL and check out the digital modes. If you
> really want to
> transmit, put the rig in VOX and hold your Microphone up the Mac's
> internal
> speaker. Be very careful with your drive levels to keep the rigs
> ALC to
> zero so you do not become a QRM generator.
>
> Sorry about the long winded response to a simple question.
>
> 73, Dick AA5VU
>
>
> On 4/24/06 2:09 PM, "Randy Terrell" <terr3846 at bellsouth.net> 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
>> On Apr 24, 2006, at 4:42 AM, Euphoria wrote:
>>
>>> Hello gurus!
>>>
>>> Sorry for the bad spelling, folks. I might try this in Norwegian,
>>> but... ;-) (Hey! Any other norwegian hams that operate with Macs out
>>> there?)
>>>
>>> I have just bought a Yaesu FT-857 and I really wont to scrap the
>>> winbox i use with my old Kenwood TS440. I have 3 Macs in my house
>>> and
>>> why use other systems? ;-) I have OSX 10.4-6 on all macs, and their
>>> modern G4's.
>>>
>>> So here's my questions:
>>>
>>> 1. What do I need to connect my radio to the Mac?
>>> 2. Just bought a CT-62 cable. It's in the mail now. What Serial to
>>> USB-interfaces do you recomend?
>>> 3. What software do you use for operating the radio on the Mac? (Is
>>> MacLoggerDX as great as it looks?)
>>> 4. Is there anything else I should know about? (Connectionspeeds,
>>> ...anything!)
>>> 5. In my transfere to Mac, I would like to convert my logg-database
>>> from Ham radio deluxe to a Mac-format. I'm planning on buying
>>> MacLoggerDX, and would like to convert what I have in the HRD-log to
>>> that program. Any suggestions on how to do that?
>>>
>>> I hope you can answer and help me out here. I *REALLY* wont the
>>> winbox
>>> out of my chack!
>>>
>>> Best 73's!! LA6UOA / Trygve:-)
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