I came across "fldigi" by accident and almost didn't give it a try. I've used "MixW" for a long time but have never been fully comfortable with its user interface and complex functionality which has remained static over the years. Still, fldigi is an outstanding digital software package! I wish there were a way to manually tell the software which band you were in. If you don't use it, your display remains locked in the 3.5 MHz band. My only complaint about fldigi is the rig control. Not stellar, but respectable, considering the band conditions, and losing six hours of prime operating time Saturday afternoon. In total, the digital station made 83 contacts. We stopped around 1:50 AM Sunday morning, then started back around 7:00 AM or so. We lost about six hours Saturday afternoon, due to bad coax cables, but once we were able to get "on the air" around 8:20 PM local, we started racking up contacts. One of our local hams, Mitch, AF2M, recommended it, and I took a chance and ran with it. Instead of the usual software (Digipan, MMTTY), I decided to go with fldigi. My wife and I ran the club's digital station at Field Day this year (third year in a row). I am also not sure the decoding sensitivity is as good as MixW, but haven't run them side-by-side yet to compare results. Is there a way of recording and replaying the waterfall? Maybe I missed it. I have not tried the CAT interface yet, but should have no trouble with that on my TS-870. I have still been using MMTTY just because it has a superior tuning indicator, now I am hoping that the indicator in FLdigi will supplant it. I've tried RTTY, MFSK4, 8 and 16, BPSK and Olivia so far and am impressed with the results. Wow! Easy to install and get going, a really nice, professional look with the buttons where you want them, and handles more modes than I will ever need. After some research I found FLdigi, read some reviews and decided to try it. None of my installed programs could handle that. Listening carefully, I decided it had to be MFSK4. Since it's free I suppose they are trying to save a bit of bandwidth by giving users the option of only downloading the rig control files they need to control their rig instead of wasting tons of expensive bandwidth by including all the rig control files to every user whether they need them or not.įinally: A Professional Digital Mode ProgramĪ few days ago I tried to copy a station on 17m but could not get MixW or MultiPSK to decode it. Just click save as and put the file in your Rigcat folder.įldigi does not supply all the rig control files in the program download. All you needed to do was read the manual and then download the appropriate rig control file. Hmm what can I say other then the manual is your friend. I have run it side by side with Digipan and the digital software provided with HRD and FLdigi constantly out performed them all by reliably decoding signals that do nothing but produce gibberish with the others.Īs for the reviewer who complained that Fldigi won't work with the FT-2000. Most hams wouldn't even consider buying a radio they could not open the cover on and fix or modify why in the world would these same people use software that is proprietary and does not give you the option of modifying it to suit your needs.Īnyhow I have been using Fldigi for quite some time and it never fails to impress me. This is a great piece of software thats very well written.Īnd it's open source!!! This is something all Ham radio related software should be. Win4Yaesu Suite also supports DX4WIN, DXKeeper, Logger32, WinLog32, Logic 9, N1MM+, NAP3 and any hardware device that supports the Yaesu FTDX radios via serial port interfaces and standard CAT commands.Great software And yes it DOES work with the FT-2000 Win4Yaesu Suite also comes with a Ham Radio Deluxe compatible server interface allowing HRD LogBook and DM780 to connect and log frequency band and mode information. Point and click control of the Yaesu radio functions without using dual purpose buttons or entering menus.īuilt in Spotting using your ClubLog profile!Īccess to the Radio Menus: Ability to export and import all settings to a file!Īnd of course Win4Yaesu Suite comes with built in Panadapter software All functions are provided in an easy to use interface that easily allows control of many options that are hidden in the Yaesu radio interface. Win4Yaesu Suite is a windows control program for the Yaesu FTDX-1200, 3000, 5000, 9000 and FT-991 / A transceivers supporting options such as the LPPAN Panadapter and the SDRPlay.
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