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LOL. Sometimes I go overboard on the details, but only because I've been frustrated so many times with people who just gloss over a solution. They post a question, and then a month later post a reply saying "I got it working, thanks..." and nothing else. While I started this post trying to...

I tried that at first. If you read my first post, and my first follow-up... I had connected the audio from the PC to what was supposed to be the audio input pin on the accessory port on my IC-745, but the audio level (even if I turned everything up) was so low it was unusable. I think that...

I also want to point out here that I'm new to HF work, and digital work, and really hooking up a radio to my PC at all. Information on the Internet on this is sketchy, as everyone defaults to "buy a signalink" or "buy a rigblaster". I didn't want to go that route. Also keep in mind that when...

When reading a microphone connector pinout, the term AF Output is pretty straightforward. You don't understand that an AF Output is just what it says, an Audio OUTPUT, meaning it should be audio out of the radio into my PC. But it turns out that that output that's part of the microphone...

Actually, in researching hooking up a radio for digital work, particularly when researching the Signalink USB device, it seems that though it had rarely (if ever) been used in the past, many radios have an audio output in the mic jack. I guess it's one of those "just in case" things that...

Good news and bad news... Well, good news is that I have it working the way I want it. Constant level audio coming out of the radio into my PC. Audio out of my PC going into the radio at a proper level. And VOX taking care of keying up the radio when necessary... The bad news is that I...

You know what would be REALLY nice. A video of the actual program in use. Seeing it interact with other programs... Maybe even narrated. A recording of an actual QSO, and the initial call lookup, then filling in the info, and completing the log entry. Then adding a second QSO, looking up...

Fortunately, export and import options mean I can test out a few different programs. I tried out Winlog32, but I couldn't figure out how to navigate around it, and if simply moving around it is that non-user-friendly, then I dismissed it right away. Currently I'm using N3FJPs Amateur Contact...

Update: After more tinkering... So, as I said before, I wired the 3 relevant pins on the accessory plug for my radio to two 1/8" jacks. One for audio out of the radio, and one for audio back into the radio. The audio out port has been working like a champ. The other port has not done...

Here is a diagram from Tigertronics for the pinout of my 24 pin accessory port on my IC-745. For what I'm doing, I don't need the 13.8v out, nor do I need the PTT (or if I do, I'm not concerned with that YET). And my audio out, mic in, and ground are wired like they say... Afternote: Just...

I recently upgraded my license and have been getting to HF, both SSB and PSK... For the moment, I've been logging my QSOs using QRZ.com as well as eQSL.cc... I do QRZ.com because I like how it shows which countries I've worked, with the flags and such in my logbook display, and eQSL.cc because...

I have recently started tinkering with PSK31 on 20m... My HF rig is an IC-745, which is an older radio, but perfectly capable... I've been trying to get my radio hooked to my PC in a way that's semi-permanent, and in such a way that I don't have to actually HEAR the PSK sounds. Here's what I...

While I didn't include that in my message, Before I flip my transmit switch back off, I do turn up the power (since in theory the SWR is good) and re-calibrate the SWR meter for the higher power level. I do not know if this is needed, but since the meter does measure the ongoing SWR, and...

I suppose I should explain myself a bit further... None of the equipment I use is/was CB equipment. I haven't touched a CB in 20+ years. And I know I'm a ham now. I've been a ham for that 20 years that I haven't been on the CB, thanks... That being said, I recently became interested in HF...

VKRules, yes, I have the "D" model which has the single needle meter. The "E" model has the dual needles... OK, now that I've got a little more use out of it, and have been able to talk to some of the guys in my local radio club, I think I've narrowed down most of my problems... What...

OK, here's the situation... I have a 10 meter dipole in the back yard, about 22 feet up at the center, with the "wings" out at about 45 degree downward angle... I am told that with this tuner, it should be no problem to match 15 and 20 meters... So, I'm trying 15 meters... So I went step...