A beautiful and relaxing video showing French radio amateur Claude Paillard’s (F2FO) skills making his own vacuum tubes (valves). Awesome skills harking back to the pre-solid state electronics era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzyXMEpq4qw
I hear a new iOS app for FT8 (&FT4) is going to appear soon - called iFTx. Not sure how it will connect to rigs…but apparently it will be available soon… Author is called Christoph Nadig. The screenshots look like it will be an FT8CN alternative for iOS
@g7vkq@hb3xew very interesting! The digilink nano supports vox, so it could handle the CAT transmit enable command to the transceiver, leaving just the audio interface to connect to iOS - which will work via the OTG CABLE. It couldn’t do the CAT frequency setting though, I suppose.. unless his FT8 app sent CAT commands encoded as sub audible tones that the digilink nano could decode and proxy through to the rig?
@M0CUV@g7vkq As far as I know, the DigiLink Nano can't do any CAT controls and only does PTT via VOX. But if you manually set the radio to the correct frequency and mode, this should be sufficient, right?
Ooow…new radio day😊. Yu BG2FX has sent me one of his lovely little FX4CR rigs. It comes in a nice protective case, along with a small instruction pamphlet, custom mic, fused power cable and phono/usb adapter
@M0CUV@g7kse managed to do a firmware update, and I’m getting used to the controls. I’ve paired it (via Bluetooth) with the FT8CN app on my Android tablet, and transmitting into a dummy load. Although you can run FT8CN at 20W, Yu recommends keeping the power to around 5W due to the duty cycle.