If you plan to use your Anytone with CAT control, then you’ll need Digirig in Logic Levels configuration. Otherwise it doesn’t matter. For your HTs the configuration doesn’t matter unless you plan to use Digirig for programming. In later case it’s also Logic Levels.
More on the topic in the product page for Anytone cable and in this article.
Thank you!!
I wanted to see if I could connect the 578 mic and the DigiRig CAT cable to the radio at the same time so I could use the mic to change frequencies, etc, while using the DigiRig. With Denis’s excellent advice, I have a working prototype. The Schottky diodes allow TTL multiplexing, so both the DigiRig can send PTT CAT commands and the mic can send its CAT commands to the radio. The resistors prevent TX audio from the mic from interfering with the audio from the DigiRig. The only thing that does not work is that there is no TX audio from the mic when you use the mic for voice coms - you must disconnect the DigiRig cable in order for the mic to pass TX audio. If anyone has any ideas about this, please post here.
This is AWESOME! Nice work, Sir!
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Has anyone gotten VaraFM to work with the digirig lite? It works fine with UZ7HO Modem and Terminal. It worked with Vox but only keyed the 578 PLUS after about 4 seconds. I’m trying CAT & COM PTT, but Vara carps at me and tells me that it can’t connect to Com 3 (the digirig lite shows up as a USB Audio Device in Win 11), that it “may be in use by another program”.
Try VOX or RA-BOARD. If using RA-BOARD, set payload audio to Left channel. There is no Serial Port on the Digirig Lite
73 Constrainted
The VOX had about a 4 second delay, and I could not see any way to delay the data. The RA-Board setting worked. Thank you! 73
Normally VOX PTT in Digirig is very responsive. Maybe the level on the right channel was insufficient. In either case it’s always a better option to use one of the explicit PTT methods instead (PTT by RA Board, RTS, CAT depending on the Digirig model).
Dennis, I was using the Digirig Lite. Does that make a difference?
Brian
