Newly Loaded Freedv

[Walter Huyck]

Hello All,

I just loaded and setup Freedv on my station PC.  Had to use the 32bit version the 64bit would not run.

So, how do I find when folks are on that I can connect to.  I am in USA in Indiana.

What bands and times.  I work during the daytime Monday through Thursday.

I would love to see if this works. I'm sure there will be some adjustments necessary.

Thanks W9KJO

[John D. Hays]

qso.opendv.org

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[Walter Holmes]

http://qso.freedv.org will get you to where people meet up to let others know who’s trying.

 

All the best..

 

Walter/K5WH

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[John D. Hays]

Sorry qso.freedv.org

On Mar 16, 2017 19:10, "John D. Hays" <jo...@hays.org> wrote:

qso.opendv.org

[Walter Huyck]

When Is a good time to find stations trying to use Freedv?

73, W9KJO

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Walter Huyck <whuy...@thischristianjourney.com> wrote:

Hello All,

I just loaded and setup Freedv on my station PC.  Had to use the 32bit version the 64bit would not run.

Can you try right-clicking the 64bit installer and choosing to install as administrator? I had one user report that fixed it for him. It would be nice to get a confirmation.

Thanks,

Richard

KF5OIM 

[W9KJO - Walter in Indiana USA]

That was the first thing I did when it wouldn't open.  I uninstalled it and reinstalled it as an administrator.  It still would not open the program.

I seems to work in 32bit version however I have yet to make any contacts.

W9KJO

[Walter Holmes]

People are on FreeDV almost all the time.  Even you don’t hear them transmitting.

 

Many of us have it running in the background, and with the digital squelch, it can be completely silent, until someone starts to transmit.

 

So, give a call a few times, and see what comes back.

 

And most important, drop in on the QSO finder to see who may be trying to make a connection in spite of the weal band conditions.

 

http://qso.freedv.org 

 

Walter/K5WH

 

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[Siegfried Jackstien]

i am looking very often on the qso finder

but very few users are locked in most of the time (maybe i am looking at wrong time???)

dg9bfc sigi

[W9KJO - Walter in Indiana USA]

Ok I am Logged onto qso.freedv.org

I see 5 call signs plus my own.  How do I know what freq these hams are on so I can try to talk to them?

When I click on a call it shows their information but not what freq they are on.

Thanks.  Still learning.

 W9KJO

[Walter Holmes]

On there right now using 800xa nmode..

 

Walter/K5WH

[Walter Holmes]

Oh, one more thing.

 

In the US here, 99% of the activity is in 14.236.

 

We do try to use the other bands but it seems that it limits your coverage areas as expected, so it gets a lot harder to talk with multiple people in a group.

 

Many of the guys in Europe have had a lot better success with 40 meters.

 

But we are able to go anywhere the propagation is. :)

 

Walter/K5WH

 

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[Pino Zollo]

Has somebody configured FreeDV 1.1 to work with the IC-7300 using the
USB cable connection ?

My setup works fine with WSJT-X and Fldigi.

With FreeDV the PTT does not actuate.

( I have selected the IC-7200 as the 7300 is not available)

73

Pino ZP4KFX

[Gary E. Kohtala]

W9KJO/Walter:   Howdy neighbor. I'm here in Radcliff, KY, in your back yard. I just ordered a SM1000 and should have it in a week or so. I'm sure you'll probably be able to hear me on the 160m, 75m, or 40m bands at this short distance. I believe that 7177 or 7190 khz in the day time might be our best bet.  As soon as I receive my SM1000 and get it hooked up, I'll start hanging out on the FreeDV QSO Finder at qso.freedv.org, looking for some contacts. Good luck with your new FreeDV setup. I hope you make many contacts.

Best regards,

Gary, K7EK

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[W9KJO - Walter in Indiana USA]

Hello All,

I tried a few times yesterday to get connected but was only able to hear a few audible words, turns out it was a QRM nearby analogue station.

So I have yet to receive a digital audio signal.

I will try more. 

Apparently analogue station near DV freqs is a problem since they seem to drown out the DV signals.  I think when analogue station see the DV signal they assume it is noise.  On the waterfall it looks similar to noise.  In the past I may have thought it was noise and use the freq with a couple notch filters, not realizing that it was a transmission and not noise.

I wonder why we don't use the actual digital portion of the band when the bands are very active since our signal looks like a digital signal?  may have a better opportunity for comms as digital folk will see our signal as some kind of digital transmission.

Just a thought a question, but I am thinking when I still have not gotten this to work.  LOL

Educate me

73, W9KJO

[Dani EA4GPZ]

El 18/03/17 a las 13:20, W9KJO - Walter in Indiana USA escribió:

> I wonder why we don't use the actual digital portion of the band when
> the bands are very active since our signal looks like a digital signal?
> may have a better opportunity for comms as digital folk will see our
> signal as some kind of digital transmission.

Hi Walter,

The digital portion of the HF bands is for signals 500Hz wide or
narrower. All the FreeDV modes are wider than this.

73,

Dani.

[Robert Ehresman]

Try 19200 kbps for CAT.

[Pino Zollo]

Thanks Robert,

I did change on the radio CI-V to 19200 but no improvement :-)


I guess that the program FreeDV should have a menu to select the speed
like it is in Fldigi and in WSJT-X.


By the way my setup works fine with those two programs.

Hope that FreeDV 1.3 will have a support for the IC-7300 and for
adjusting the speed.

Best 73

Pino ZP4KFX

El 21/03/17 a las 00:10, Robert Ehresman escribió:

[Mel Whitten]

N4DV has a 7300... you can catch him every day on the freedv qso finder.
Mel

[John Trager]

Pino,

I have noticed on my 7600 that some programs with work setting a specific
baud rate, but at least one wants the CI-V rate to be set to AUTO. Have you
tried AUTO? Also, I'm using FreeDV V1.2 now.


John
N2KBE

[Walter Holmes]

I believe Pino was using Linux, when I talked to him a few days ago. And he did not have the latest Linux build.

The Windows 1.2 build does indeed support the IC-7300 as it has the latest Hamlib set.

And I'm sure the latest Linux fileset does the same, if you go to the repository to do the build yourself.

I am not familiar with what is in the available in the prebuilt version available.

Perhaps someone on the list here can confirm that for us.

Walter/K5WH

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Subject: RE: [digitalvoice] Re: IC-7300

[Pino Zollo]

El 22/03/17 a las 00:48, John Trager escribió:

> I have noticed on my 7600 that some programs with work setting a
> specific baud rate, but at least one wants the CI-V rate to be set to
> AUTO. Have you tried AUTO? Also, I'm using FreeDV V1.2 now.
>
>
> John
> N2KBE

Yes John,

I have tried AUTO, but it is the same....the PTT does not actuate.

73

Pino ZP4KFX

[Ed Durrant DD5LP]

Hi Pino,
 With the speed set to 19200 (rather than115200 as needed for the spectrum scope in RS-BA1) and with hamlib option set to IC-7300 and the correct COM port selected PTT works here between a Windows 10 laptop and my IC-7300, using just the USB cable.

 I have the problem that the audio isn't getting through from the PC to the RIG - fine in RX.

73  Ed.

[Ed VK2JI]

Sorry, forgot to point out, this is with FreeDV 1.20 64 bit version, I believe you are still using v 1.10? I should also have said the com port speed has to be changed in the IC-7300 menu - not at the PC end.

73  Ed.

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[Pino Zollo]

El 22/03/17 a las 13:51, Ed VK2JI escribió:

> Sorry, forgot to point out, this is with FreeDV 1.20 64 bit version, I
> believe you are still using v 1.10? I should also have said the com port
> speed has to be changed in the IC-7300 menu - not at the PC end.

Resumen:

here are the main point out of my experience in connecting the IC-7300
to the computer (Linux in my case) for digimodes via the USB cable.

1- Upgrade the IC-7300 firmware from 1.3 to the last...1.4 in my case.

2- Get a good USB cable.

3- Make sure to have a persistent device name as explained in:


http://rolfblijleven.blogspot.nl/2015/02/howto-persistent-device-names-on.html


editing /etc/udev/rules.d/99-usb-serial.rules
in my case I also made a symbolic link in /dev so that /dev/IC-7300
points to /dev/USB0

4- Install the last version of hamlib ...at present ver. 3.1

5- CI-V speed on the radio to AUTO works just fine...as on FreeDV the
speed is not settable.


73 GL

de Pino ZP4KFX

[Ed VK2JI]

Hi Pino,

Do you have any other applications that are able to access the IC-7300
via the virtual serial port over the USB cable and send CVI commands to
the rig? (e.g. rig control)?

I presume you are using the Linux version of FreeDV, in which case my
experiences with FreeDV on Windows 10 and IC-7300 probably wont be of
help to you.

Are there specific Linux drivers from ICOM for the IC-7300, to talk to
the audio and com interfaces of the chip within the rig, if not that
could be the problem.

73 Ed.

[David Rowe]

Hi Pino,

I use FreeDV on Linux with my IC7200, so we must be close.

On my system FreeDV is linked with a Ubuntu-supplied Hamlib package.

Please try to use the Hamlib rigctl utility from the command line, and
see if you can trigger PTT. Would also be useful to double check the
version of hamlib FreeDV is building against, version etc

$ rigctl -V
$ rigctl -l | grep IC_7300

If you can use rigctl to trigger PTT, I'll add some debug info to FreeDV
so we can work out what the difference is.

Cheers,

David

[Christophe Donzelot]

Dear David, Dear Pino.

IC-7300 support was added in revision 3.1 of hamlibs.

Version 3.1
	2016-12-31
	* Fix kenwood_set_mode for ts590s and mode CW, RTTY or AM.
	Tks Tom, DL1JBE
	* Proper IPV6 and dual stack networking. Bill, G4WJS
	* Add a new command line option '--no-restore-ai' ('-n') to rigctl.
	Bill, G4WJS
	* Fix missing PKTUSB mode setting code for FT-817 & FT-897. Bill, G4WJS
	* New Prosistel rotor backend from IZ7CRX
	* Install daemon man files to man1. Nate, N0NB
	* Migrate from libusb-0.1 to libusb-1.0. Stephane, F8CFE
	* Added support for Icom IC-2730. robinolejnik
	* Added support for the Icom IC-7300. Mike, W9MDB
	* Add send_morse to icom rigs. Mike, W9MDB
	* added instructions how to compile on OSX. DH1TW
	* New Perseus model. Stephane, F8CFE
	* Added Lua binding and demo script. Ervin, HA2OS
	* Added test to support Flex 6300. Bill, KB4AAA
	* Many bug fixes and feature enhancements to the code base. See the
	Git commit log for complete details.

Best 73 de Chris HB9TLN

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email : hb9...@radioamateur.ch
ICQ : 22425392

[Pino Zollo]

El 23/03/17 a las 07:46, Christophe Donzelot escribió:

> Dear David, Dear Pino.
>
> IC-7300 support was added in revision 3.1 of hamlibs.
>

Yesterday FreeDV did work fine on the PTT...

today there is no way .... maybe the change of season :-)


I have tried rigctl:

pino@Radio3:~$ /usr/local/bin/rigctl -m 373 -c 0x94 -s 9600 -r
/dev/IC-7300 -p /dev/IC-7300 T 1
pino@Radio3:~$ /usr/local/bin/rigctl -m 373 -c 0x94 -s 9600 -r
/dev/IC-7300 -p /dev/IC-7300 T 0

all work fine ....but FreeDV ignore the PTT command....

re-tried Fldigi and WSJT-X and they work just fine.


Which test can I do for you Chris ?


Best 73

Pino ZP4KFX

[jdow]

On a hunch "-s 9600" working means you have the 7300 set to 9600 bps. I believe
some postings here suggested 19200 was the correct setting for this app.

{^_^} Joanne/W6MKU

[Don Poaps]

The IC 7300 looks for 19200 however in Set >  Connectors There is a menu to modify.

Don va7dgp

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[Pino Zollo]

El 23/03/17 a las 14:32, jdow escribió:

> On a hunch "-s 9600" working means you have the 7300 set to 9600 bps. I
> believe some postings here suggested 19200 was the correct setting for
> this app.
>
> {^_^} Joanne/W6MKU

My radio is set in AUTO as I ignore the speed of FreeDV.


73
Pino ZP4KFX

[Pino Zollo]

How to set up FreeDV 1.2 for Linux to work with the IC-7300 using the
USB cable connection.

Update:

1- Upgrade the IC-7300 firmware from 1.3 to the last...1.4 in my case.

2- Get a good USB cable.

3- Make sure to have a persistent device name as explained in:


http://rolfblijleven.blogspot.nl/2015/02/howto-persistent-device-names-on.html


editing /etc/udev/rules.d/99-usb-serial.rules

in my case I also made a symbolic link in /dev so that /dev/IC-7300
points to /dev/USB0

4- Install the last version of hamlib ...at present ver. 3.1

5- Compile the 1.2 source code. If your PC is in Spanish possibly you
will get an error at the last make, so edit
./build_linux/src/CMakeFiles/freedv.dir/flags.make
and remove CR LF from the Spanish strings.

5- Set the CI-V speed on the radio to 19200 as at present FreeDV can not
change the speed and it comes with that speed.
AUTO works just fine if FreeDV is run just after having powered the
IC-7300 as the radio recognizes the speed of the first sent string....
then remain fixed on that speed.