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HELP with SmartSDR CAT and FLDIGI
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I use the following: Hardware PTT , Device: COM6 and check "Use RTS" and DON'T FORGET to "Initialize" (Wonder how I know?!) RigCAT , SmartSDR.xml Device: COM5 nothing checked except Use RigCAT at top and initialize, (Bit me here also!)0
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I still don't get a freq display0
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Did you press the Initialize button? If the CAT is not working you will notice the QSY button on fldigi is greyed out. Usually a refresh of the Initialize button resolves the problem for me.0
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I found that after initializing my RigCAT setup, I had not only to save, but to close FlDigi and restart it. Then things worked really well. I also found that it always helps to open SmartSDR CAT and refresh its port list so I can observe which ports are open and whether or not they are dedicated or shared. As I get older and more "seasoned" it helps to have these visual reminders, because I can't remember any more! For most of the simple Digi modes, I have found that FlDigi was easier to use than HRD. ..... so far.....1
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I am using the SmartSDR.xml file that Tim wrote and loaded it into fldigi, but I cannot make fldigi retain the com port I assign. It always reverts to com 12 for some reason. that is not the port that I assigned form SmartCAT. fldigi is not getting info from the radio, of course. Can someone explain to me how to make this work> I have PTT working OK.0
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Is it possible the com port you assigned is in use by another program? You created the comports thru SmartCAT. Did you check Control Panel/Device Manager/Ports to see what the system thinks you have?0
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Don, fldigi is not saving what I enter on the RigCat entry window. I click the red initialize button and then the SAVE button at the bottom of the entry window. But it does not get saved. When I exit the rigCat form and then bring it back up. The entries are all back to the default values. I am using SmartSDR.xml, Am I saving incorrectly? Where else must I save?0
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Dave There is also a another save configuration. When you go to the Configure Tab look at the bottom of the drop down and you will see "Save Config". Select that and see if that keeps your changes. Don0
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All working in fidigi now, thanks for all the help. Now I can help others because I figured this out mostly on my own. But at my age, memory will fade fast :-)0
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I'm stumped as well. There seem to be some gremlins in this procedure somewhere. I followed the YouTube video to the letter but never saw any waterfall display indicating that FLDigi was hearing the radio. Although CAT seemed to be working at one time as I used the mouse wheel to change freq and FLDigi followed on its freq display. Now that seems to have stopped working and no amount of clicking on the 'Initialize' button seems to have an effect. Steve G./N4TTY0
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Looks like a reboot of the computer and toggling the TX button in the DAX Control Panel has me working. Steve G./N4TTY0
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That is always my first step when things get weird. If that doesn't help, then I do a complete power-off reset of both rig & computer. BTW> In setting up FlDigi, I found about three of four different places where I had to go in and select the sampling rate of 48000 (in the sound card set up, and at least two places in the windows control panel>sound devices> properties, etc) in both the RX and TX paths. I was getting some higher IMD on PSK31 before I rechecked all of the settings. I had thought I had gotten them all, but apparently I had missed one! Good Luck!0
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After trying many changes and along with these changes, doing computer re-boots, I've finally been able to get SmartSDR CAT working and functional with FLDIGI. I've gone through so many varying combinations that I really don't know what finally caused it to work.0
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Kirk: This is possibly late to help. However, Each Time I start Fldigi, I have to Open the Fldigi configuration window and initialize the Hardware PTT, reload the SmartSDR.xmj file and initialize both before SmartCAT or DAX works correctly. The necessary boxes in Fldigi configuration are checked and each new Fldigi configuration is saved after changes are made. This configuration process has to be repeated each time Fldigi is started, because the Fldigi configuration is not saving the new settings..Bill
W4EY
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Honestly, this is horrible quality engineering for a program that does not interface with the radio and Smart SDR. This is not even beta quality work. I've wasted two hours trying to get CAT to transmit again. I've done everything by the letter and it no longer works. You talk about horrible engineering, this is it! Shame on you guys.
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Remember to enable the DAX button.
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Bryan, if you update to fldigi 3.22.13 and use the newest xml rig
description files for RigCAT, fldigi should work for you.
It runs here with these settings:
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I have created an extra serial port 8 in SmartSDR CAT for it.
Note, that I use RigCAT, not Hamlib, which doesn't work for me.
Also please note that I use SmartSDR-SliceA.xml from the fldigi
webpage xml depository. You can find tutorials on this forum,
how to use 2 slices with fldigi.
I have created PTT port 7 in SmartSDR CAT and these are the settings for it.
I must confess although that I mostly use HamRadioDeluxe DM780, with
MiniDeluxe as a server.
73, Alex DH2ID0 -
I use FlDigi and MultiPSK with my Flex 6500 and have had no problems setting up the equipment. I found the RigCat file from http://www.w1hkj.com/xmlarchives.html made things very simple to get FlDigi to run but to get FlDigi to receive, all you need to do is to set a DAX Channel, I set mine to 1 and in the FlDigi, set the input to look for this channel. I hope that helps but I can send yo some screen shots of how mine is set up if that will help you. I always recommend that people start with FlDigi as it is easy to get running with nearly any rig.
Bill
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Guys, I got it to work fine many times. It is when the program is closed and then opened again. Settings do NOT hold and when they are changed to the correct settings again, it still will not transmit the rig. Most of the time, it requires all the settings be put in again, initialize again, and then a complete reboot of the computer. I have another friend with the exact same issue. Perhaps this is a Windows 8 issue, who knows, but it doesn't hold the settings and life is too short to try and correct the problem each and every time I attempt to use the program.0
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Bill, thank you for your comment, as I also find fldigi easy to use and to set up.
It also is a very stable program, in this way better than DM780. I only wish
it would do FSK and WinKey...
RigCAT works for me, although I have problems with Hamlib, which OTOH works with my TS-2000X0 -
Windows 7 Home Edition 64bit here, Bryan. Could it be a Windows permission problem?
I had that many problems with permissions, that I work all my PC's in this network as an administrator and have all internet connections run through a LINUX firewall PC...1 -
Alex
Ditto!
73, Jay - NO5J0 -
I can't figure out how to download smartsdr.xml0
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You have to copy it and then paste it into notes or similar application and save it as the original name. This worked for me.0
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Right-click and save target as..... I think that was how I did it. Then move it to the Program FilesFldigi folder of the version you are using. Each new version installs to a different directory.0
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TNX goy it used save as0
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