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How do I setup DAX with Fldigi?

Tim - W4TME
Tim - W4TME Administrator, FlexRadio Employee admin
edited June 2020 in SmartSDR for Windows
Greg K5GJ has a "how to" Youtube video FLEX-6000 SmartSDR DAX How To that shows the steps for setting up DAX with the FLEX-6000 Signature Series SDR and Fldigi. There is even a section on how to optimize the Windows sound devices to get a few extra dB of dynamic range out of the receive process and remove some Windows sample rate re-sampler aliasing artifacts on your transmitted signals. Good stuff. A must see.

Answers

  • Vern
    Vern Member
    edited June 2014
    Don't have any luck getting FLDIGI or DIGIPAN to go into transmit when pushing their respective TX buttons. Hint?
  • Tim - W4TME
    Tim - W4TME Administrator, FlexRadio Employee admin
    edited February 2019
    First you have to make sure CAT is working by verifying that the program is tracking the Slice A frequency. Then you may have to toggle the slice A TX to get CAT to work with PTT. This is covered in the Release Notes in the Known Issues, Limitations and Caveats section.
  • Vern
    Vern Member
    edited June 2014
    That was quick! TU Vern W9HLY
  • Vern
    Vern Member
    edited June 2020
    No joy! A friend who is thinking of getting a 6xxx help me. Got it to xmt once and the freq appeared in FLdigi but disappeared after a few seconds and a button or two clicked. Don't know which buttons! Tried Digipan. No transmit either. Pressing Refresh in the Port Map (of CAT) list Digipan under 'Connected To:' but FLdigi does not show. Using Com4 for both 'third party pgms' . And they match in CAT displays. Hints? P.S. My 1500 acted up today. Audio is unintelligible & display rather non-typicall. How would I re-install the latest software. Never happened B4. Vern
  • Bob G   W1GLV
    Bob G W1GLV Member ✭✭
    edited December 2016
    Most of the digital programs need a PTT comm port to work. SSDR CAT you can set up a PTT port and then reference the lowest port number of the two in your digital program. It should work.
  • W5UN_Dave
    W5UN_Dave Member ✭✭
    edited November 2016
    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.
  • Vern
    Vern Member
    edited December 2015
    Appear to have it all working thanks to K3GEN. I cannot tell the story of how he got there but it happened. Thanks to all. Until the next problem, Vern
  • Jerry W2TXB
    Jerry W2TXB Member ✭✭
    edited February 2017
    Also (finally) got the DAX and CAT set up to work; so far, so good. The video and the documentation got me there... well, those and a few minutes of time between working and sleeping. Follow the video and published instructions to the letter, and it is good to go. :)
  • Vern
    Vern Member
    edited June 2014
    Good! You deserve a bit of luck this time of year! My 'santa's helper/elmer' watched a video on Youtube that I think helped to some degree. I have a small problem yet with 'fldigi' Each time I boot up fldig I have to go get the SmartSDR.xml file and let fldigi do with it whatever it does with it. There may be a work around but I haven't found it yet. Digipan responds perfectly. TU Vern W9HLY

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