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<v Speaker 1>SIQ parks on the air from Keilocharlie five Hotel Whiskey Bravo.

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<v Speaker 1>Today we're doing FT eight with the brand new DR

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<v Speaker 1>eight ninety one cables from Digirig. I'll put a link

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<v Speaker 1>in the description below. It basically makes your yazoo FT

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<v Speaker 1>eight ninety one a plug and play radio for digital modes.

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<v Speaker 1>I wanted to show you this today, so let's go.

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<v Speaker 1>them for sponsoring this channel. All right, while I'm working

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<v Speaker 1>this right here, I'm able to record a video and

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<v Speaker 1>work FT eight at the same time. I just worked

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<v Speaker 1>one QSO at a time, and then it pops up

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<v Speaker 1>and it has me acknowledged the QSO into the logbook,

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<v Speaker 1>and then I move on with the enable transmit button.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm calling back to this guy right now, Kilo seven

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<v Speaker 1>Papa Delta Whiskey, and I'm sending him Roger, Roger, Roger,

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<v Speaker 1>but he's stopped replying to me. So that is how

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<v Speaker 1>it is. So you got to go through some settings

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<v Speaker 1>in the FT eight ninety one to get it set

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<v Speaker 1>for digital modes. But I wanted to show you this setup.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the bag from the Tech Prepper. Unfortunately you

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<v Speaker 1>cannot buy these bags anymore. I'm always on the lookout

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<v Speaker 1>for other bags that will hold radios in Armlock cages.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the TPA eight ninety one cage from Armlock.

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<v Speaker 1>You can see how far it comes off of the

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<v Speaker 1>radio right here. These guys were in the Huntsville Hamfest

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<v Speaker 1>just a short time ago at the time of this recording.

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<v Speaker 1>But I've had that cage for about a year. I

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<v Speaker 1>took this entire setup before I put the digirig cables

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<v Speaker 1>on it. I took this entire setup to Utah, Bryce Canyon, Zion,

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<v Speaker 1>Yellowstone National Park, several other places did some a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of activations with this. But this is your digi rig

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<v Speaker 1>eight nine DR eight ninety one set up here. It's

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<v Speaker 1>the radio interface cable and the USB B cable that

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<v Speaker 1>go into the back. Both of these cables have built

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<v Speaker 1>in Faireite beads right there and again right here, so

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<v Speaker 1>both of them have double Fairiite beads built into the cable.

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<v Speaker 1>Very cool setup from Dennis there. And then they go

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<v Speaker 1>into the top of that digirig that you see right there,

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<v Speaker 1>but they go into to the back of the digirig

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<v Speaker 1>and then out of the front of the digirig is

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<v Speaker 1>a single USB C cable. So the USBC comes out

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<v Speaker 1>of here and it goes into your computer however you

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<v Speaker 1>want to interface. You want to interface USBC to USBC,

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<v Speaker 1>that's fine. This is my FCG one tough pad from Panasonic.

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<v Speaker 1>It has a single USBA port on the side, so

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not I'm going c to a today. So now

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<v Speaker 1>anytime I want to operate a digital mode from this

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<v Speaker 1>radio all I have to do is plug in a

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<v Speaker 1>single USB cable and we're done Windows. Now. I have

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<v Speaker 1>found there's several videos on YouTube with this new DR

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<v Speaker 1>eight ninety one cable system. There's a couple of guys

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<v Speaker 1>doing win Link with it. There's a couple of guys

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<v Speaker 1>using a Mac computer at Kdemord. He uses a Mac computer,

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<v Speaker 1>gas Stone the tech Pripper. He's doing this with win

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<v Speaker 1>link and JSA call. I have yet to see anyone

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<v Speaker 1>use this new system with a Windows box to do

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<v Speaker 1>FT eight for PODA, So I wanted to show you

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<v Speaker 1>that today. There are several settings in the radio you

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<v Speaker 1>have to set. You have to go into like I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know eight or ten or maybe twelve different menus.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm going to show you that here in a second.

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<v Speaker 1>And then when I set it up the first time,

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<v Speaker 1>WSJCX was acting weird. It was acting like I had

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<v Speaker 1>had had the bandwidth set to a narrow bandwidth and

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<v Speaker 1>set it for three Killerhurtz wide. It was acting like

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<v Speaker 1>it wasn't decoding signals, and it was acting like a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of things. I closed WSJTX and restarted it and

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<v Speaker 1>it fixed my problem. And I've had to do that

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<v Speaker 1>a couple of times in the past. Not a big deal.

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<v Speaker 1>Just sometimes if you change some settings, that's the thing.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's just kind of the way it is. So

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<v Speaker 1>if you're having trouble with WSJTX and you know you've

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<v Speaker 1>got all your settings correct, close the program restarted. It

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<v Speaker 1>is a Windows box after all. Okay, I'm going to

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<v Speaker 1>go over some of the settings with you that I

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<v Speaker 1>changed in the FT eight ninety one in order to

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<v Speaker 1>make it ready to do digital modes. Now, these settings

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<v Speaker 1>can kind of vary, and you have to do a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of things in Windows also, and quite frankly, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm pretty well versed in Windows and I got it

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<v Speaker 1>to work and it was no problem. But I emailed

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<v Speaker 1>Dennis and then I ended up calling him on the phone,

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<v Speaker 1>Dennis the owner of digirig, and he's like, well, there's

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<v Speaker 1>actually a better way to do that, and we walked

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<v Speaker 1>through some settings on the sound card and we got

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<v Speaker 1>it to work a little bit better. So what I

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<v Speaker 1>did worked, but what he did worked better. So basically,

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<v Speaker 1>you have to go in if you click on your

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<v Speaker 1>once you have the digit rig plugged into USB, go

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<v Speaker 1>down to the bottom right corner of your sistre the

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<v Speaker 1>bottom right corner your window and Windows right click on

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<v Speaker 1>your sound speaker and choose sounds. Then from there you

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<v Speaker 1>have a recording and a playback tab. And on each

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<v Speaker 1>of those tabs you might have multiple options in there,

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<v Speaker 1>but you need to go down and find the one.

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<v Speaker 1>For the digi rig. Mine was listed as speaker and

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<v Speaker 1>microphone USB audio codec. So what you can do is

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<v Speaker 1>you can write or double click on those and change

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<v Speaker 1>some settings in there. I renamed mine to digirig for

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<v Speaker 1>both the playback and the recording device. The recording device

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<v Speaker 1>is obviously the microphone, the playback is the speakers. But

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<v Speaker 1>if you name both of them to digirig and make

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<v Speaker 1>sure they're not set to the default speaker and microphone,

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<v Speaker 1>that was something that did that. Dennis told me that

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<v Speaker 1>was important to do. Do not let them be become

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<v Speaker 1>the default because Windows will mess with you because Windows

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<v Speaker 1>is dumb. Find your ambient, find your default speaker and

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<v Speaker 1>microphone from Windows, right click on it, set to default,

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<v Speaker 1>make sure it's not the digi rig, and then from

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<v Speaker 1>there you can go into the digi rig. You can

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<v Speaker 1>uncheck a box that says AGC that's actually in Windows.

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<v Speaker 1>You can set the audio levels and you can rename

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<v Speaker 1>them to what you want to. So that was a

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<v Speaker 1>that was an extra I had it working before I

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<v Speaker 1>did all that, but that was an extra step that

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<v Speaker 1>helped me along as well. So there's a few menus

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<v Speaker 1>in the FT eight ninety one that we have to

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<v Speaker 1>set in order to do digital modes correctly, or at

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<v Speaker 1>least correctly with the digirig device. So what you're going

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<v Speaker 1>to want to do is you're going to want to

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<v Speaker 1>hold long press the F menu on the bottom of

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<v Speaker 1>the radio, bottom left corner of the radio, and that'll

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<v Speaker 1>take you into the deep menu for the FT eight

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<v Speaker 1>ninety one. In the deep menu, you want to start

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<v Speaker 1>at menu five to ish oh six, okay, and you

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<v Speaker 1>want to set that for thirty eighty four hundred, which

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<v Speaker 1>is the setting that we will match in the WSJTX software.

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<v Speaker 1>The cat TOT menu five oh seven is one hundred

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<v Speaker 1>milliseconds and the cat rts is disabled, So which is

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<v Speaker 1>a menu five DASHOA Those you want to set first off,

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<v Speaker 1>and then you scroll down by using this wheel on

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<v Speaker 1>the bottom left this control knob on the bottom left

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<v Speaker 1>corner of the radio, and you're gonna find Menu eight

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<v Speaker 1>dash one, and it's for data mode. There's shovel options

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<v Speaker 1>in there, and the setting that I'm using is others,

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<v Speaker 1>and then the next three for PSK tone, other DSP

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<v Speaker 1>and other shift are all set to fifteen hundred hertz.

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<v Speaker 1>I found that on another video somewhere. I set that

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<v Speaker 1>and it seemed to work, so I just kind of

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<v Speaker 1>kept going with it. Eight h five Data cutoff, data

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<v Speaker 1>L cut frequency is off data L cut slope. This

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<v Speaker 1>is eighteen dB slash oct. That's what it was by fault,

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<v Speaker 1>so you could see the screen kind of flashing there

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<v Speaker 1>anyway it was. It was that by fault, so I

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<v Speaker 1>just left that. Data high cut frequency is also off

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<v Speaker 1>so that it doesn't cut off the frequency at the

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<v Speaker 1>top or the bottom of the WSJTX band. And then

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<v Speaker 1>the high cut slope was also by default, so you

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<v Speaker 1>can see that there. And then we want to in

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<v Speaker 1>menu eighth nine. Data in select is rear because we're

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<v Speaker 1>using that rear USB B port in the back of

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<v Speaker 1>the eight ninety one. This next menu is eight ten,

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<v Speaker 1>which is data PTT select and da ky is what

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<v Speaker 1>you want. Mine was there by default, so I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>change anything. That's just kind of where it was and

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<v Speaker 1>then data out level is fifty again that was mine

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<v Speaker 1>by default. I did not change that. And then data

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<v Speaker 1>VFO should be set to USB. I think mine was

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<v Speaker 1>something else. Mine was LSB. But this sets your data

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<v Speaker 1>BFO to upper sideband because all digital modes on all

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<v Speaker 1>bands are done on upper sideband, digital U or whatever

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<v Speaker 1>your radio might call it. But that puts it on

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<v Speaker 1>upper sideband. Then we're gonna scroll down here to menu

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<v Speaker 1>eleven O seven, which is right here, which is BPO

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<v Speaker 1>or b I'm sorry, BFO, and that should be set

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<v Speaker 1>to auto. And then that's pretty much it for that

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<v Speaker 1>deep menu right there. If you long press the band

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<v Speaker 1>button here on the top, it takes you to the mode.

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<v Speaker 1>So you're gonna want to set that from SSB to

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<v Speaker 1>data mode or from CW today you want to set

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<v Speaker 1>it to data mode wherever you were beforehand, So you're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna want to set that, and then on the width,

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<v Speaker 1>which you can. I've got my width set right there.

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<v Speaker 1>That is five hundred by default, or it was before

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<v Speaker 1>I changed it, okay, And to get into that menu,

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<v Speaker 1>you just go into function short press the function menu,

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<v Speaker 1>go into function one and you've got the width right there.

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<v Speaker 1>You can choose which option is there turning the knob,

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<v Speaker 1>press the knob, change the width right there. I set

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<v Speaker 1>it on my quick menu down here, just because I

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<v Speaker 1>wanted to. And the very last option is actually back

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<v Speaker 1>in the deep menu. Again. Let's get out of there.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's go back into the deep menu and we're gonna

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<v Speaker 1>scroll down to option sixteen oh three, which is the

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<v Speaker 1>HF power. Now you can see right there on the screen.

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<v Speaker 1>SSB power is one hundred HFAM powers twenty five and

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<v Speaker 1>HF power I have set to thirty. And the reason

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<v Speaker 1>I have it set to thirty is because this poda

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<v Speaker 1>able antenna HF power is the data or the digital

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<v Speaker 1>power for the data mode. When we changed it in

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<v Speaker 1>the band selection long press, the band changed it to data.

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<v Speaker 1>This is the HF power that's used for that. Jesu's

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<v Speaker 1>got different power settings for sideband AM and data. Some

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<v Speaker 1>people don't like that. I think it kind of makes

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<v Speaker 1>sense because you don't know what You may not always

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<v Speaker 1>want to do one hundred wats or five watts on everything,

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<v Speaker 1>but whatever, whether you like that or not, that's where

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<v Speaker 1>you change that. This poda able antenna max is at

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<v Speaker 1>thirty five watts for digital modes. I ranted at thirty

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<v Speaker 1>five watts for about a half hour and it got hot,

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<v Speaker 1>so the SWR came up, so I changed it down

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<v Speaker 1>to thirty watts and it seemed to work just fine.

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<v Speaker 1>I was getting plenty of stations, I was hearing plenty

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<v Speaker 1>of stations, I was getting responses from plenty of stations.

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<v Speaker 1>With thirty watts, it worked just great. But that's pretty

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<v Speaker 1>much all you have to set as far as the

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<v Speaker 1>radio menus go, and once you have all that, it

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<v Speaker 1>should automatically connect up. I've had the digirig installed on

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<v Speaker 1>this Panasonic FZG one tough pad for a long time.

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<v Speaker 1>But the first time I ever installed it Windows Reddit,

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<v Speaker 1>it installed the drivers. I had no problems. If you

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<v Speaker 1>for Windows ten, Windows eleven, whatever you're using. So, but

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<v Speaker 1>that was easy. So as soon as you plug. As

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<v Speaker 1>soon as I plugged in this digirig, it came up

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<v Speaker 1>with the proper drivers on the proper comports. You just

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<v Speaker 1>set those accordingly. For WSJTX, there's certain settings I actually chose.

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<v Speaker 1>In the menus of WSJTX, there is a drop down

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<v Speaker 1>when you choose radio, so I just created a new profile.

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<v Speaker 1>I called it digirig, and in the drop down for

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<v Speaker 1>the radio, I chose yesu FT eight ninety one. It

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<v Speaker 1>and a menu for WSJTX, because the eight ninety one

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<v Speaker 1>Joe Taylor was smart enough to put all the radios

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<v Speaker 1>in his drop down because things such as the digirig

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<v Speaker 1>and signal Link and many other sound card devices have

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<v Speaker 1>existed for a long time. So I chose FT eight

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<v Speaker 1>ninety one at my dropdown menu, and then I chose

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<v Speaker 1>thirty eight thousand, four hundred for the boad rate, which

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<v Speaker 1>we set in the radio a minute ago, and then

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<v Speaker 1>pretty much everything else was by default, but I did

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<v Speaker 1>com six, which the digirig installs two comports, a sound

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<v Speaker 1>in and a sound out. That's normal, so you choose

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<v Speaker 1>then and then everything else was pretty much by default,

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<v Speaker 1>but you do have to go over to the audio

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<v Speaker 1>tab and choose the digirig for both your microphone and

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<v Speaker 1>your speakers. If you've renamed it, it should just be digirig.

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<v Speaker 1>If you haven't renamed it, then it might be it's

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<v Speaker 1>probably called USB Audio Codec or something similar in that menu.

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<v Speaker 1>So that was basically all I did. Now, every time

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<v Speaker 1>I have to plug this up, I take one USB

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<v Speaker 1>to C cable I plugged into the digibrig, I plugged

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<v Speaker 1>it into my tough pad, and I'm done. If I

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<v Speaker 1>wanted to use my Evolved Maestro laptop, it would be

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<v Speaker 1>the same thing. USBC to USBA or my Windows laptop.

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<v Speaker 1>USBC to USBA I could do. On the Windows laptop,

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<v Speaker 1>I could do USBC to USBC if I wanted to.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's up to you depending on what connection you're using.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's pretty much it I made. I think I

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<v Speaker 1>made about eight or nine contacts. So I didn't finish

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<v Speaker 1>my PODA activation because because I left my charging cable. Now,

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<v Speaker 1>the great thing about that tough pad is that it

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<v Speaker 1>charges via twelve volt. It has a twelve volt charge.

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<v Speaker 1>It has a twelve volt charger that you can buy

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<v Speaker 1>an addition to it that's got a cigarette lighter plug. Of course,

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<v Speaker 1>I just cut it off and put powerpools on it

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<v Speaker 1>so I can charge it from my battery box. But

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<v Speaker 1>I left that charger at home. I didn't think it

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<v Speaker 1>up and configured and blah blah blah. Some of this

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<v Speaker 1>I did yesterday, but I wanted to make sure I

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<v Speaker 1>had all my ducks in the road and everything was working,

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<v Speaker 1>so I didn't get enough time to actually activate the park.

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<v Speaker 1>But that's okay. That just means I can do some

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<v Speaker 1>sideband now. I've got my Explorer backpack with me. It's

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<v Speaker 1>got all my stuff in it. Really enjoying this potable

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<v Speaker 1>Poda Abule antenna from the guys in Bayside, Texas. They

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<v Speaker 1>make that. I'll put a link in the description blow

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<v Speaker 1>for that. And that's actually like the second time ever

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<v Speaker 1>I've used my thirty two foot spider beams mast. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't use that one very much, but I'm like, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna be running lower power than normal, lower power

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<v Speaker 1>than what I am used to running, so I wanted

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<v Speaker 1>the antenna up higher and it fits in this spot.

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<v Speaker 1>From there, I could hang the feed point up a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit higher. Typically i'll hang the feed point down lower,

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<v Speaker 1>top of that thirty two foot mast and it's working beautifully.

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<v Speaker 1>I was hearing stations all over the USA, hearing some

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<v Speaker 1>Kenadian stations, one or two Cuban stations and works some

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<v Speaker 1>Poda ft eight thirty watts from the DR eight ninety

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<v Speaker 1>on the air today. Thanks for watching today, Guys, put

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<v Speaker 1>a comment BLOW if you have any questions about this.

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<v Speaker 1>Links for everything I talked about will be in the

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<v Speaker 1>description Blow and we'll catch you next time.