From top to bottom, these are the Receive pane (navajo white), the Having headphones plugged in makes no difference. Hello everyone, and thanks for this forum. Stop reading and install the driver from the Yaesu site. Give as a gift or purchase for a team or group. The 6 ft. No matter what I try, I cant get the ALC meter to go up or down, it just sits in themiddle. appear on the main window, and clear the log fields after logging the QSO. logbook title bar will show you which logbook you currently have open. program will automatically retune to drifting signals. text received, even if there is no signal present, and the receiver is 3.4 Fldigi Installation If you want to run multiple copies of Fldigi or configure it for different slices, you should set up a separate icon for each slice and provide a unique directory name as a parameter in the target line. This box changes size when you enlarge the program window. Note that this set of tabs is also where you set the RTTY modem speed changes are temporary). USB Codec will not receive and transmit anything. radiotoday guide to HF data on FT8 & PSK: using WSJT-X and Fldigi Kindle Edition by Rob Walker (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 57 ratings Kindle $9.99 Read with Our Free App Many radio amateurs who are finding the bands quiet are now turning to HF data on FT8 and PSK and finding lots of activity when using the weak signal modes offered by WSJT-X. I can have the DT GAIN on 2 or 60, the meter doesnt change.. When I get it back from repair, Ill rush to get it set up for digital. Erich, The other thing to pay attention to is the volume slider on your PC. The Vol Slider for Output was on 90% now changed to 50% The easiest way to set-up the list is to edit the frequencies2.txt file found in the .fldigi directory. N3FJP logbook, Winlink, VARA FM, except FLDIGI. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); try to connect the 991 you will see a hamlib error when you try to do the CAT connection. A handy dialog pops up to allow this to be done. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. If you are running into issues with increased power, this is a grounding or stray RF issue. (Or some other possible number) That is fine as well. information, or define your computer sound card, for example. Hamlib, it may still be possible to control it via signals to tune it in, receive it, and if the opportunity allows, reply to the Im a brand new Ham and dont know anything. is usual to send ZL1ABC de AA3AR K, and at the end of a QSO 73 F3XYZ de 3D2ZZ : Enjoy! to switch using Options->Properties, and selecting the Recording radio ***. Any ideas? Once they get sent back to Yaesu, the problems are solved. I checked my radio out on other modes and its fine plus FT8 signals are flying in on receive. Wanted to share it here. Does this happen in MSK144 and JT65 as well? Has anyone seen or can you provide a good explanation of what these do and why? rig. FLEX Signature Series Amateur Radio Products This forum is dedicated to the support and troubleshooting assistance for FlexRadio . Ran well on 991a.!! Ive setup and it seems thats working. then use some simple heuristics to decide which log field will receive the text. Up to version 1.90 of WSJT-X everything worked as you posted on FT8 but have upgraded to ver 2.0 as WSJT-X recommend. 73 There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. It is where I finally found the settings that worked for me. allowing you to type, and see what the other person types. All settings are exactly as described on this page. After you definitively confirm non-bricking of your 705 following the firmware update, go and install the Fldigi software onto your computer. Let the Sun and Wind do the work - Go TOO BLUE! The Yaesu manual does not explain much of what you have explained. If the buffer only the bandwidth cursor. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. 73`s from LU6EI, Works great! I try now with FeldHell a Russia Station.but until now he ask QRZ? The line of buttons under the waterfall is used to control the program (as When I change input to Realtek and clap my hands, bar graph will move but still no decodes. Select your rig model from the drop-down menu and set the appropriate power. The Mini-Wizard: FREE Electric Power in a Tiny Package! When typing text, the correct use of upper and lower case is important: Modes such as RTTY and THROB have no lower case capability. One for CAT, the other for DATA. Learn more. It's very sensitive and anything more than 100W transceiver power is highly discouraged. to receive mode. Please try again. I had one heck of a time getting them to load on my laptop. Based on the RadioToday Guide to HF Data on FT8 & PSK using WSJT-X and Fldigi, Modern Data Modes has been brought up to date for 2023 with new material covering JTDX and MSHV and additional sections on FT4 and the keyboard-to-keyboard mode VarAC. If you also hold the Control key down before thanks. WELL DONE THIS IS FIRST MANUAL FOR FT991A THAT WORKED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mark, The larger central box shows (in DominoEX and THOR modes) the received When transmission reaches this point, transmission will USB drivers (Win 7) HAVE TO BE installed first. Rv button turns the signal decoding upside down (some modes are sideband Yes, this is the first set of command. Get message that says unknown usb device not loaded property 700MHz), you should verify that Slow CPU under Configure->Misc->CPU has Here is my frequency2.txt file containing the DATA-USB settings and frequencies . What is your call sign Mickey? Since Im only using the radio to transmit an already encoded signal, the GMSK codec that soundmodem is using should just pass right through the ft-991 since that all is happening outside the radio. Everything else works, e.g. Set WSJT-X sound card Input AND Output settings to USB Audio CODEC. Hope to work you on the bands! So back to just USB which works just fine. No transmission. Very happy now that I have learned about this setting and have adjusted appropriately. Brings up the Online Documentation, the Fldigi Home Page, and various These drivers will not work with the 991/991a. Chances are they are yours! Nothing in the manual about what it does, but I suspect that in its other setting, 9600, it widens the transmit or something. software is very sensitive. select Use serial port PTT, the device name you will use, and which line Randall. several categories and there are menu items in which you enter your personal I have not tried to use the 991 for sat use, I am not much help there. Both the function of these buttons (we call chips (Prolific, FTDI). If you press a key other than the ^^^ What Bob, W9BU said And keep it in Upper Sideband (USB) regardless of frequency or band. FT8 and Fldigi have the same volume issue. No RF issues with the software quitting during TX cycles. digital modes without switching programs, so you only have one program to As time passes (over a few You can also practise transmitting with the transceiver Heck, most Ops dont even realize they have a full sound card in the 991/991A. your text from the previous text, and especially from any rubbish that was Tom de KN4RWR. Frank, I think you are right. . As the text is transmitted, the text colour changes from I just cant believe Im the only ft-991 owner trying to do 9600 baud data! You must not use RIT (Clarifier) when using digital modes. I am using Win10, FT-991A with only USB Cable and getting Transceiver not responding. operate on the single word. As I mention in the blog, these are examples of what the numbers might be. The software provides a tuning display which shows the radio signals that are After some web surfing I added the drivers in manually as they did show up in the section list. Thanks for the catch! Finally I bought a high quality USB cable which solved all problems it seems. You can choose to disagree with me if you like but my recommendation for the FT-891 and a portable antenna is to keep the power under 40 watts. You DID do that before you got to this point yes? Fldigi The Ultimate Solar Power Design Guide: Less Theory More Practice (The Missing Guide Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. Thanks for the help. Recently on the 991 Yahoo group there has been a lot of discussion around the proper USB cable to use with your 991 / 991A. I think a repair from Yaesu will get you back working quickly. If the audio level is too which the receiver and transmitter will operate (without retuning of We have been through the settings a dozen or more times. contains unsent text, then it will begin at the first character in the 4. This line of buttons provides user-editable QSO features. receive. Serge! Device manager does not list the new ports. https://www.w6pql.com/misc/wsjt-x/ft991-wsjt-x.pdf, https://ft991.blogspot.cz/2016/09/fldigi-setup-my-version-3227-win-10-com.html, http://blogzs1jen.dyndns.org:83/wsjt-x-config-for-ft-991/#comment-758, http://tickets.hrdsoftwarellc.com/kb/faq.php?id=89, https://static.dxengineering.com/global/images/technicalarticles/ysu-ft-991.pdf, scoured_the_internet_for _FT_991_settings, https://groups.io/g/FT-991A/topic/75352580#625, https://ham.stackexchange.com/questions/20729/wsjt-x-problems-with-windows-11, https://www.google.com/search?q=uninstall+drivers+windows+7&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8, http://n5pa.com/blog/2015/04/02/new-yaesu-ft-991-hfvhfuhf-multimode-portable-transceiver/, https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/hamhf/3991_60m.html, http://www.yaesu.com/downloadFile.cfm?FileID=9505&FileCatID=42&FileName=USB%5FDriver%5FInstallation%5FManual%5FENG%5F1610%2DB0.pdf&FileContentType=application%2Fpdf, Silicon Labs Dual CP210x USB to UART Bridge: Enhanced COM Port (COM 4) (, Silicon Labs Dual CP210x USB to UART Bridge: Standard COM Port (COM 5) (. Which free software would you suggest to do PSK31 with a FT-991A? It should turn GREEN. I just have a 3.5mm jack cable going from the ICOM 746 (non pro) to an External USB Sound Card LINE IN jack. What seems to be going on now is when I select Data-USB in the mode section of the radio and then I try to transmit it goes back to USB (upper SSB). Higher power is typically not required. mouse down the list and sideways following the arrow to a secondary list, before You should see two ports a standard and enhanced when the radio is connected. I would have given it up if it wasnt for your directions. For example, Ctrl 177 is de KT4WO Thank you. PAY ATTENTION to your ALC settings. And how can I do a factory reset? However, lets take a step back. Best practice is to keep it low, which means you will have to adjust per band. When I load it, the FLRIG comes up and initializes and shows it is connected to Com 4 (enhanced). Ideas? My name is Ted, call sign KC4BW. JS8Call is heavily inspired by WSJT-X, Fldigi, and FSQCall and would not exist without the hard work and dedication of the many developers in the amateur radio community." Unable to add item to List. Keep up the good writing. Thanks, Tom. Since FLDIGI is working on 60, I'm guessing it's a problem between the FTDX-101 and WSJT-X (on 60 meters only). But setting 079 to 9600 yields no modulation. Download 64 bit drivers. Glad you were able to get your rig up and on the air in the digital world. N3FLL, Frank and K3EUI, Barry, and NY3J Ron are sponsoring a. Note: These ports will not show up unless you have the 991/991a connected to the computer via the USB cable. In the menu, in the FM PKT settings, there is 079 FM PKT MODE thats set to 1200. buttons adjust the signal level over which the waterfall works. Like WinWarbler, Fldigi doesn't have a visible RF Power slider. Watch the waterfall can maintain an unlimited (except for disk space) number of logbooks. Although these Next (some modes) is the measured YES with the rig control set to Rig you will operate split Transmitting on one frequency, RXing on the other, especially if you are on different TX/RX slices in the pass band. Greetings Robert, Below are some OLDER screen shots. If the logbook dialog is open, that last QSO recent QSO with that station and, if an entry is found, the Name, QTH and Thank you for the comments! Hi! NOT using the internal sound card in the 991, but rather the external Signalink device. I have no problems using UISS and soundmodem to work APRS at 1200bps, but I cant get the FT-991 to do 9600bps with UISS or WiSP. The line at the bottom of this pane can be dragged up and down with the I have tried the Buxcom, the West Mountain Radio (The M8, yeah.. a while ago!) Not all cables are made the same!). The QSY button moves the signal under the bandwidth cursor to a preset audio This has replaced my Windows/ Ham Radio Deluxe Log and DM780 setup. If you have different radios that you are connecting to the same laptop for digital (in my case, a FTDX1200 and the FT-991), PAY ATTENTION to the different COM ports that are assigned and make sure your are using the correct pair of standard and enhanced ports. I cannot get the 991A to TX in HF only UHF. Menu. didnt help, it was doing it with 1.6 that is why i upgraded to 1.7 yeah its annoying when it kicks out seems like 1 out of every 3 times i try to tx it kicks out if i am lucky it will tx 4 times with out kicking out. Having said that.. the usb cable IS important. It might have to be adjusted up. It doesn't matter if you run 10 watts, 50 watts or 100 watts, the ALC will be consistent. Other Hello jason This button turns on the receive RSID (automatic mode detection and tuning) Modems can be 066 DATA LCUT FRED = OFF none at all. green and the incoming signal is decoded and printed. Morse operation is slightly different. Stay with 3 ft. is my recommendation. He asked me to see in the low left corner of the screen, the verticle red bar was way too high. Now have issue in WSJT-X: Vertical signal bars display every 1000Hz on waterfall display t Lower the software gain (looks like/is a volume control slider near the bottom-right of the main window. Press Pause or Break while in receive, and the program will switch to You can also place these in the macros. waterfall. keypad or the normal numeric keys) to insert the ASCII character designated by Got it up and running after following ur directions EXACTLY!!! mode you used. http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html. 1) Is the radio grounded with a ground strap? thank you my friend, very good information, de yg3dzu. I work with 10-50 Watts and played with the DT Gain. noise, you have the right input and about the right level. Reboot. SHOUTING! The Ham Radio Control Library-Hamlib, for short-is a project to provide programs with a consistent Application Programming Interface (API) for controlling the myriad of radios and rotators available to amateur radio and communications users. This was a copy and paste of various FT-991 menu settings from all over the globe, from translated German pages as well as translated Japanese blogs. Hope to work you some day on the bands. Weak signals and background noise are dark Do they appear on the radios own waterfall if you reduce the waterfall scope width? Click Test to begin polling your rig. If every signal you hear is upside down, check your transceiver Once the drivers are loaded, it is a matter of getting the digital software that you want installed and setting it up to talk with the USB port on your laptop. We are restricted to certain segments of the bands for CW and data operations. Hope to hear your FT-991 on the bands soon! 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