![]() Make sure the CTCSS codes are turned off on both radios.At the risk of overexplaining, here are some things I would check: Yes, if one radio is transmitting correctly, you should hear noise on the other. I think I understand what youre describing about the behavior of the baofeng. I just learned how to do that on the pi, and posted it here if you need it: Auto Gain Control in Linux? All those levels are managed through alsamixer on the pi. I’ll leave the linking of FLDIGI and FLRIG to the documentation provided with both apps.Oh. From there everything should be self-explanatory. Once you click on the application should update and pull the current frequency from the VFO and display it on the FLRIG virtual VFO. Go to your Device Manager to confirm what COM port is assigned to what driver (usually the ENHANCED driver is assigned the lower of the two and they are sequential) You will want to use the ENHANCED driver for this. Note – COM3 is the port my computer (An HP laptop running Windows 10) assigns the ENHANCED driver. Next you can fire up FLRIG and make some changes there I’ll just post the screen shot with highlights because I’m lazy: ![]() If you find some different settings that work or are an improvement, please post in the comments and I can always update this. Go ahead and go to the menu and make the following adjustments:Ġ7-11 CW FREQ DISPLAY DIRECT FREQ (not sure on this – just following N1RWY’s instructions)Ġ62 Data Mode OTHERS (NOT PSK – change to OTHERS)Ġ8-04 OTHER SHIFT (SSB) = 1500 KHz This widens the audio bandwidthġ6-14 DATA GAIN – 5 (however you can adjust this once FLDIGI is working to meet your needs) Īlright – time to make some changes to the radio. I want to thank Jay N1RWY for his work on the 991 that helped me get this going. Now we need to make some changes to the settings on the FT-891 so it will communicate with FLRIG. Once the application is installed you can go ahead and start it. The basics on how it works can be found at and you can download it from If you turn your 891 around you’ll see what I mean. Type B is shaped like a house with a flat roof, or maybe hexagonal. Type A is the standard rectangular one you find on your computer. You’re going to need a cable with a Type A and B connector. Now what? Lets get a USB cable connected. So, you got the drivers working (right?) and you’ve got the audio piped into your computer and vice versa. It’s basically just a USB port with audio IN/OUT, but works great for our purposes. I could just get a Y cable and be done with it, but I do like the idea of having two sound cards (built in and secondary) to separate computer sounds from radio audio (you don’t want the audio from YouTube going over the air) so I spent $10 and got a USB sound card. Unfortunately, my laptop has a TRRS plug for audio. From there you can plug them into the respective audio jacks on your computer. The best solution is to get a breakout cable that takes the audio in/out from the DATA jack and gives you two 3.5mm audio jacks. The biggest letdown of the FT-891 (there are a couple, but I still give this rig a great rating) is that the USB port doesn’t double as a sound card.
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