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Select the transceiver with the "Config / Xcvr select" menu item |
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Select the rig in use from the "Rig" combo box. The default values associated with that transceiver will be preset for you. These have been verified by the test team but might require some tweaking for your particular h/w. You may prefer to use h/w PTT signaling instead of CAT PTT. Not all transceivers support the CAT PTT function, but it will be preset to on if the selected transceiver supports that command. The h/w PTT may be shared with the CAT serial port. If your serial connection is a CI-V device you might need to check "Echo" and also set either RTS or DTR to +12 if CI-V power is derived from the serial port. |
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Your PTT h/w control may also make use of a second serial port. |
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You might also need access to
special h/w functions. flrig provides this via the DTR and RTS
signal lines of an independent serial port. Additional main
dialog controls are enabled and shown if you select anything other than
NONE (the default) on this tab. |
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Additional control settings may
be available depending on the transceiver being controlled. This
dialog shows those controls for the Jupiter, TT-538. This
transceiver implements the bandpass filter using DSP. It also has
the ability to control the IF shift (passband tuning). By
combining the two functions it is possible to always center the
selected BPF at a user specified frequency. This is particularly
useful when operating digital modes and in cooperation with fldigi. Many modern transceivers derive all injection and demodulation frequencies from a single crystal oscillator. The Vfo-Adj control allows you to compensate for small errors in the transceiver master oscillator. This is best done using an external reference (WWV at 5 Mhz for example) and the frequency measurement ability of fldigi's Analysis mode. This is what the waterfall looks like when tracking WWV with the VFO set to 4998.5, USB. The WWV carrier then is centered in the waterfall at 1500 Hz. |
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The measured WWV carrier in this test was 4,999,999.75 Hz. |
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The frequency display is also a
control. Each numeric is sensitive to mouse left/right buttons
for up/down and to the mouse scroll wheel for rapidly changing
value. Click on any of the numeric segments and you can enter a
new frequency using the keyboard numeric keypad. If you make an
error simply enter a non-numeric key. Set the newly entered frequency by
pressing the Enter key. When the mouse pointer is over the frequency display you can also change frequency values using the arrow and page key buttons:
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The buttons that have a light box are toggles - activated when the lighted box is colored.
Some of these are linked to a slider. If the button state is
inactive then that associated slider will be greyed out. In the
example the volume control is active and the IF shift control is
inactive. The Attenuator is OFF. |
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Operating flrig with fldigi
requires a simple setup in fldigi. Deselect all but the "xmlrpc"
rig control. Xmlrpc is used via a local socket device for the two
programs to communicate. fldigi acts as the server and flrig the
client. There is no requirement for start / stop ordering of the
programs. Flrig sends rig configuration data to fldigi when the two programs initially recognize each other. This data is used to populate the rig name, the available modes and the available bandwidths. After this initial communications the operator can set the paired controls from either fldigi or flrig. The two programs will remain sychronized. The data from the computer to the transceiver is always from flrig. PTT can be activated at flrig or using the T/R button on fldigi. fldigi also engages the PTT via the macro <TX> <RX> tags. When operating digital modes with fldigi you should use the PTT from fldigi. |