[ICOM] Icom 7600 Interfacing

[Bob Burns W9BU]

To interface the IC-7600 to a logging program or a sound card digital mode
program, you can use the USB interface. Make sure to download the latest
driver from Icom and install it _*before*_ connecting the cable between the
radio and computer. The driver will allow the radio's CI-V control to
appear on a COM port in the computer and the radio's RX and TX audio will
appear as USB sound cards to the computer.

Note that you will be connecting to the USB port on the back of the radio.
The USB port on the front is only for a USB keyboard or a USB thumb drive.

I use the Icom USB interface regularly to interface my IC-7600 to
HRD/DM780, fldigit, and N1MM/MMTTY. The one limitation that this interface
has is that it will not do FSK RTTY, only AFSK RTTY.

As for interfacing to your tuner and amp, you will probably need to use the
CI-V port on the radio. I have heard anecdotal that you can't use the CI-V
port and the USB port for computer control of the radio simultaneously, but
I don't know how that impacts CI-V control of an external tuner and amp.

Bob...

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:30 PM, <bcarling at cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> Dear Brains Trust - Questions:
>
> I am looking at buying a used 7600 in the next few days from a local chap,
> and I am
> wondering IF I will need the ICOM CT-17, that the is  CI-V interface and
> cable?
>
> Icom says that you need the CI-V interface for computer control - do you?
> I am told that I can just use the USB cable to go to a computer and use
> that for both audio
> I/O and rig control' HRD, FL-DIGI, WSJT-X etc. etc. and I am told I won't
> need it for that, BUT
> what if I also want to interface the 7600 to my MFJ-998 antenna tuner that
> is hung on the
> ouput of my TT 422 amplifier?  Is there any advantage to using the Icom
> CT-17 CAT
> interface and cable for rig control... or interface to the tuner??
>
> Also, I wonder what you all think of the Icom SP-23 speaker?
>
> Many thanks for your comments and experiences, guys - Bry, AF4K
> Brian Carling, Radio AF4K
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