[Ham-Mac] iMac and Icom 756PRO III and SignaLink SL-1+

[Richard Hemingway]

Dick,

Sorry that I have taken so long to answer you reply.  Two things are 
taking up my time right now.  First, is moving our daughter from VA 
to TX.  Her brother and sister will pick her up Monday and fly down 
with her.  We are trying to get her apartment in assisted living 
ready for her.  She will arrive Monday - and we were just told by the 
moving company her furniture will not arrive until Tuesday.  Also, we 
were told that she could not bring narcotic medicine with her on the 
plane, even if she had a prescription.  We got a conflicting story 
from American Airline.  But she has to have it when she gets here - 
so I ran all over Dallas yesterday getting a prescription from the Dr 
she will have here and having it filled. The whole week has been like 
this.


>I don't understand why you are having trouble with the 756 and the SL-1+
>unless you failed to properly install the SL-1 jumper wires.  The Icom uses
>a different configuration than you had on the old rig.

I don't know why I was having the problem.  Everything seems to be 
working alright now!!.  I used the same arrangement I used with the 
PRO II I used to own.

>As a test bypass the SL-1+ by using a jumper from the Icom's Ext speaker to
>the audio line-in on the iMac.  Double check the OSX System Preferences
>Sound to see that you have the correct input selected.

I did this.  It works fine now - it didn't when I first tried it.  I 
may have something set wrong in preferences.

>Are you sure the cocoaModem PSK receiver is active?  By default it is
>inactive and you have to Config menu and change the Status from inactive to
>active.  If it is inactive.....you will not be able to receive anything.

Yes, I have done that always.  What I have noticed lately is that it 
seems a little less sensitive than some of the other programs I run 
on the Mac, like DarwinPsk and MultiMode. They seem to be able to 
decode the weak signals a little better.

I  really like the iMac.  I have most of the programs running now. 
Dick Warrior won't work, and my backup program, Retrospect can't find 
the HD.  Eudora (e-mail) and my all-in-one HP printer-fax- scanner 
works fine.  My word processing program, appleworks works great. 
CocaModem is working fine.  Haven't tried MacLogger yet.

Have a great weekend.  Take care.

73,

Dick, N5XRD