Welcome to the group. I have a TS2000 and also an SDR-IQ, I will be glad to help in anyway I can. Being an old-time digital mode enthusiast, I tend to suggest that rookies start the way almost all of us did with Digipan. Free, good, and the easiest to set-up. FL-digi and Winwarbler are perhaps the next easiest.
You can start receiving digital modes easily by taking the audio "out" source (headphone or ext speaker jacks) and connecting it via a cable to the line IN of your computer's soundcard. There are some that worry that the audio could be a little to "hot" and blow your soundcard, I have done it LOTS of times before and never had a problem. To be on the safe side, you can lower the LINE IN audio level in you computers sound card mixer settings. Simply doing the above will allow you to copy all digital modes supported by your software. 95% of the digital modes you are ever likely to hear are either PSK31 or RTTY. So When it comes to transmitting and receiving, you will need to also connect your transceiver to the computer so that the tones generated by your software and sound card are sent over the air. Thus you have both IN and OUT of your sound card connected to your rig. You can also achieve "control" of your rig via the software and cause the rig to change frequency, transmit or switch to receive (and a few other things). Do do this, most hams have an "interface" that goes between the rig and the PC. The interface can be built for about $25 worth of parts, but many hams buy one. These interfaces range from the very simple and effective to the very sophisticated and effective . Some use circuitry that achieves full computer assisted operation and some do do it via simple use of VOX (Signal link). For most operations VOX will be fine but there are some more advanced applications that cannot be used via VOX. Andy K3UK --- In [email protected], greathoun...@... wrote: > > I guess I just feel into the newby bucket. Just got off the phone with a > buddy, I guess I got talked into learning to do psk31. He said he was told to > get a Signallink thingy. Is that the best easy one to get, or is there > better? I see that you list Airlink Express, is that a easy one to learn? I > have a k'wood TS2000 and a Flex 5000 That I'm trying to fumble thru.. Any > suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Oh, he doesn't know how to run it > either, and I think he wants me to help him ;-) Thanks Bill N8VWI > >
