xdax issues can't connect to slices 6600m

John Orjias

what am i missing? ok so just want to use the 6600m with xdax and xcat, the xcat works fine (i do not have smartsdr or any other clients connected to the radio)

xdax show its connected to the radio, but even though i have slice a and b enabled on the radio and dax enabled (in the transmit settings) xdax does not show anything on the slice, it all works fine if i turn on smartsdr i can connect xdax to a slice just fine. i have restarted everything and i cant get it to work, the other day i got it to work but only on slice a, it just seems i cant get xdax to work right when i'm just using the radio alone.

K3SF

Dax needs to be set in each of the receive slices. Touch the freq on the main panel of 6600m and you will see the setting for DAX between WNB and AGC.  Pick a DAX channel such as '1" for slice A and '2' for slice b


then on xDax just click the button next to where is says Slice A and Slice B

if you intend to run any digital modes you will still need to get Loopback to get the audio from xadx into the digital mode s/w (aka wsjtx)

Paul K3SF

K3SF

needs to run under macos 10.15.x - Catalina

John Orjias

awesome thanks, yes i have soundflower right now (that will only give me audio for one slice) but good for just testing. i just could not get slices to show consistently and was beginning to lose my mind, thanks.

K3SF

sometime pics go in upside down ...they just want attention ;-)

i found loopback well worth the price as they keep it up to date and it works with catalina just fine

if you want to explore more mac s/w there is xSDR6000 by Doug K3TZR

s/w is work i progress but works well in digital modes and if you are running ssdr v3 on the 6600m you will be able to access all four slice


this can be found at github

https:&#47;&#47;github&#46;com/K3TZR/xSDR6000/releases</code><b alt="" name="" rel="" target="" title="" type="" value=""><code alt="" name="" rel="" target="" title="" type="" value=""><br><br>just need to download the &#46;app version

works with ssdrv3



have fun

Paul K3SF

John Orjias

looks cool unfortunately it does not seem to want to start up, it just crashes out :-(

K3SF

what macos are you running

John Orjias

ok thanks, that would be the issue