Fldigi Running On Raspberry Pi 3 – Icom 7300

K0PIR

I'm an Amateur Radio enthusiast. I love the hobby and experimenting with radios, antennas and software. On my YouTube channel I upload videos on the Icom 7300 and Icom 7610 along with Ham radio software programs. I hope to inspire people to try new things in Amateur Radio.

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Vince Binder
6 years ago

You just made my day!

Now I need to find a monitor I can run off 12v that’s light weight.

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John KC4LZN
6 years ago

I’m going to try this.

As for the monitor, I’ve been successful with VNC to operate my Pi and not have to purchase any additional hardware.

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John KC4LZN
6 years ago
Reply to  K0PIR

I got it up and running but am having a dickens of a time, finding out how to adjust the volume. Both speaker and microphone. I’m using a USB Sound Card and it sees it, just not able to adjust the volumes. I’ve tried using the Audio Device Settings under Preferences and even installed Pavucontrol and it doesn’t seem to matter how I adjust the slides, there isn’t any change to the volume levels.

Is that controlled by FLDIGI?

73 John

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John KC4LZN
6 years ago
Reply to  John KC4LZN

Never mind. I found it under the preferences tab, where I was on the Audio Device Settings, there was an additional tab that controlled the Automatic Gain Control. It was checked, not allowing me to control the microphone. Unchecking it allowed movement of the microphone and thus, changing the input from the radio to the pi. My water fall isn’t yellow any more. I can reduce the sound from the radio and my water fall is blue now.

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Terry
5 years ago

Hi Rich. I tried to get my Rasberry Pi working with Fldigi but having a heck of a time getting it to consistently control my IC7300. It has worked a handful of times but for the life of me I couldn’t tell you what changed between those episodic events. I have the ic7300.xml file and the icom specific usb driver selected for rig cat to function but it’s just frustrating me. I have also tried rebooting with the usb cable removed, reinstalling Flrig, and I tried hitting the initialize button repeatedly but it only works when it decides to.

I have a usb for rig control and separate usb to a SignaLink device that I only use for keying CW on the rig. I actually have that wired for CW so I can use fldigi to send CW and it work well on my MacBook just can’t get the pi to work. Any thoughts?

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Terry
5 years ago

Oops! I figured it out. Working like a charm now.

I had my amplifier turned off because I don’t feel it necessary to use anything more than the IC7300 puts by itself and because the amplifier (Acom 600) uses the Aux/CI-V port on my Icom radio fldigi wouldn’t control my rig unless it was on and running. So, I either unplug the Acom amplifier from the Icom or just power it on and leave it in standby mode. Either way it’s working 100% of the time. Total noob move! Haha. Great post and even better videos.

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RICHARD EGAN
5 years ago

Thanks for the video. I have WJST-x running on a RPi to my TT Argo VI. It receives great but TX has so far been a challenge through the Signalink. Next up FLDIGI.
Rich
KA2VCW, Rochester, NY

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Jim
5 years ago

Hi, guys
Thanks for the great info. Here’s my issue. I installed fldigi, connected cables and selected USC codec in my Pi3. During some test runs the Pi3 will cause my SignaLink to key, but the radio (Yaesu FT-950) does not start to xmit. I have been experimenting with the audio levels, but no-go so far. Very frustrating. Any ideas would be appreciated!

Jim, KW6JIM

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Bruce MacAlister, W4BRU
5 years ago

Rich, thanks for you guidance on the 7300 with the Raspberry Pi. Using it I got everything hooked up, downloaded and compiled new versions of fldigi and flrig and got it going just fine. EXCEPT. Decode is junk. The tones are there, the waterfall is present although the lines are more fuzzy than I’m used to in digital, but the decode is gibberish. I’ve tried every setting recommended for the 7300 and for fldigi.

What suggestions do you have to diagnose this?

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Sean Finlayson
4 years ago

I’m using a raspberry pi 4 with my FT-857D and I’m curious as to the baud rate? I was going to try 9600? I’m in the UK, if that affects anything? Regards
M0VXD.

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Carlton K2CMH
4 years ago

Do you happen to know if this same procedure will work with the IC-7200?

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Jim
4 years ago

waiting for my first rpi 3b and will load fldigi to use with ic-7100 (and ft817 with signalink) How do you link to a logging program? can I use N3FJP or is there another program that is rpi friendly?

Jim KI6WJ

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Jim kc6pas
4 years ago

Where does a CI-V cable plug into a 7300?

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