[TMRA] Digital stuff.

[Joe Thielen]

I have an IC-7000.  I've just been using the external speaker jack for audio
out.  Yeah, it renders the internal speaker useless, but that output goes
into my RigBlaster, and then that has audio out so I have a little
hamfest-special external speaker on it.  Works fine.

When I first got it I do recall hooking up an external TNC via the DATA
socket.  I recall it working and having no issues.

I'm looking at the IC-7000 manual now.  On page 12 the table for the DATA
socket pinout looks like it has one pin for AF OUT (pin 5) and one for DATA
OUT (pin 4), but the DATA OUT pin looks to be only if you've got it in
"9600" mode.  I would assume that regardless you should get audio on at
least one of these at any time.  The IC-7000 has a menu setting for putting
it in "9600" mode... menu M-3, then button F-4 should toggle it (page 116 in
the manual).  I think it'll say "9600" somewhere on the screen if it's in
that mode, so I would assume that if you don't see 9600 on the screen, then
you should get audio on the AF OUT pin on the DATA socket.

Again, this is just going from memory...

My only other thought here is that maybe the AF OUT output is "line level",
and not strong enough for the soundcard to process?   This is just
speculation.  But on page 12 of the manual in the "ACC Socket" table for pin
12 "AF", it notes that the output level is "100-300 mV rms".



On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Brian Knoblauch
<briank at glmotorsports.net>wrote:

>    Had a nice huge long e-mail typed out, but the HTML filter ate it when I
> sent it from my webmail...  Soooo, here's the short version this time.  :-)
>
>    I'm trying to get my soundcard interface hooked up to my Icom
> base/mobiles.  From the way I read the spec sheet, I should be able to pull
> AF Out from the "Data" socket.  However, I don't seem to be getting
> anything.  I read somewhere that someone else had the same issue with a
> 703+
> (which is one that I'm having trouble with).  I've also tried a 910H and a
> 7000 with the same results.  Does that AF Out only become active in packet
> mode on the newer rigs?  Using the port in the manner I describe seems to
> be
> done by others with success, but haven't been able to find out what radios
> they're using.
>
>    I'm trying to avoid using the "Acc" socket as it's not the same between
> all my radios.  Would like to be able to make a single cable that works on
> them all if I can...
>
> Thanks,
> Brian - KD8COO
>
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