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Flex 5000 and Microham Microkeyer III
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Adam Tarpley
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I just bought a DB37-fx-5000 cable from microham. My rig is a Flex 5000 with 2nd rx and I am running the latest PSDR from KE9NS. Am I correct that the female com connector on the cable goes to an available com port on the COMPUTER and that I must bridge the com port used to control the radio to the physical comport on the computer using ddutil?
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OM Adam,
There is no need for a hardware interface for Flex 5000 to work digital modes. It is the most efficient method as analog noise and distortion are absent. I suggest Ham radio Deluxe for logging and CAT control. You need to create a pair of virtual ports using com0com software or VSPMgr and a Virtual Audio Cable to send audio to and from PSDR. Last free version 5.24 of Ham Radio Deluxe works fine.
HRD is linked to JTXD or WSJT-X software if you plan to work FT8 or FT7. In this software RADIO is set as Ham Radio Deluxe. Note- DB9 port on the back is not a RS232 port.
Study link below:
http://kc.flex-radio.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50362.aspx
Tom, SP7WT
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I appreciate your reply. I want to use a serial port for a number of reasons. The microham cable has a db9f connector and I wish to know where it connects.0
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i don't have a F5000 but at my F6 i use a FTDI Serial - USB converter and connect MK III direct to F6
73 Chris0 -
Hi Adam,
that cable you have DOESN'T connect to your Flex 5000....under no circumstances plug this lead into your rig....YOU COULDN'T even if you tried as pin 3 IIRC is BLOCKED off, thereby stopping you "accidently" plugging a db9f (serial type) connector into your radio.
The "db9f" socket on the back of your 5000a is NOT A SERIAL PORT. It serves another purpose.
That Microkeyer looks like a nice piece of kit but FWIW it would have been cheaper IMHO to purchase CW Skimmer.
73 de G7DAZ (Darren/Daz)0 -
I know that it is NOT designed to go into the flexwire connector on the back. But where IS it designed to plug. Could it be a physical serial port on the computer? If that is true, could I use ddutil to pass data to my microham devices?0
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