# Digirig satisfaction!
**URL:** https://forum.digirig.net/t/digirig-satisfaction/274
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Tags:** kenwood-tm-v71a
**Created:** [September 23, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.digirig.net/t/digirig-satisfaction/274 "2022-09-23T22:36:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@kv7iru](https://forum.digirig.net/u/kv7iru)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.digirig.net/t/digirig-satisfaction/274/1 "2022-09-23T22:36:18Z")
Greetings from Idaho. My name is Steve Galbraith . My callsign is KB7ITU. I am one of 6 digital trainers for the area. We use the digital modes for emergency communications. I knew that the digirig was beginning to get popular so decided i should buy one and learn how to help others set it up. What a breeze. In 10 minutes I had it working with my kenwood ht and in another 10 minutes I had it woking on my kenwood tm-v71a. If you are going to use it on VARA FM you will need , in some cases to cutt the trace between the two pads marked att. The audio is a little too high for that mode. Once I cut the trace it worked with no problem. What a great product and price.
73 All,
Steve
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### Author:  [@K0TX](https://forum.digirig.net/u/K0TX)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.digirig.net/t/digirig-satisfaction/274/2 "2022-09-23T22:50:46Z")
Steve,
Thank you so much for your feedback.
Happy to hear you enjoy using Digirig!
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### Author:  [@Richard\_Johnson](https://forum.digirig.net/u/Richard_Johnson)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2022, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.digirig.net/t/digirig-satisfaction/274/3 "2022-12-07T05:04:01Z")
What cable did you use?
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### Author:  [@K0TX](https://forum.digirig.net/u/K0TX)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2022, 5:07am UTC](https://forum.digirig.net/t/digirig-satisfaction/274/4 "2022-12-07T05:07:03Z")
Richard,
For Kenwood TM-V71A you can use the same cables set as Yaesu FT-8xx transceivers. The only difference is that for CAT control Digirig needs to be in RS-232 configuration
> **[Yaesu FT-8xx cords for Digirig Mobile](https://digirig.net/product/yaesu-ft-8xx-cords-for-digirig-mobile/)**
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> Yaesu FT-8xx cables for Digirig Mobile
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### Author:  [@kn6uht](https://forum.digirig.net/u/kn6uht)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2022, 2:45am UTC](https://forum.digirig.net/t/digirig-satisfaction/274/5 "2022-12-12T02:45:53Z")
So all I need for the V71A is the Digirig with the RS-232 option and the “Yaesu FT-8xx cords for Digirig Mobile”? I don’t need the “Yaesu and Icom 9600 baud MiniDin6 audio cable”, right? 73
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### Author:  [@K0TX](https://forum.digirig.net/u/K0TX)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2022, 3:08am UTC](https://forum.digirig.net/t/digirig-satisfaction/274/6 "2022-12-12T03:08:54Z")
Yes, that will get you going. If at some point you decide to try 9600 baud you can replace 1200 baud cable that came with Yaesu FT-8xx kit with that one. In most of the modes you will not see any difference, but you might get faster winlink sessions.
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### Author:  [@kn6uht](https://forum.digirig.net/u/kn6uht)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2022, 3:49am UTC](https://forum.digirig.net/t/digirig-satisfaction/274/7 "2022-12-12T03:49:51Z")
Thank you, Denis! Actually I’d really like to do 9600 straight out - that’s very much my aim for Winlink sessions via VARA FM wide. I don’t suppose there’s a slightly more efficient way to acquire the 9600 baud 6 pin and the serial 8 pin without the redundant 6 pin in the Yaesu set?
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### Author:  [@K0TX](https://forum.digirig.net/u/K0TX)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2022, 4:57am UTC](https://forum.digirig.net/t/digirig-satisfaction/274/8 "2022-12-12T04:57:25Z")
You can leave a note with your FT-8xx cable kit order and I’ll swap out the MiniDin6 cable for 9600 version.
EDIT: let me first confirm the 9600 pinout on TM-V71A. Some radios (I’m looking at you, FT-891) don’t follow the convention.
EDIT2: We’re good to go, here’s the pinout from the manual:
And here is the cable’s pinout (pin numbers mirrored, but the cable is right):
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### Author:  [@Constrainted](https://forum.digirig.net/u/Constrainted)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2022, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.digirig.net/t/digirig-satisfaction/274/9 "2022-12-22T15:36:36Z")
Which version of Digirig did you cut this trace between pads att? This audio high level is a creeping problem for some users.
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### Author:  [@ve7tzb](https://forum.digirig.net/u/ve7tzb)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2023, 12:03am UTC](https://forum.digirig.net/t/digirig-satisfaction/274/10 "2023-04-21T00:03:37Z")
I’m trying to debug an issue I’m having with a second-hand DigiRig v1.9 + Kenwood TM-V71A combo I purchased a few months ago that I’m just getting around to setting up. I already have this combo, both units purchased brand new, running as a mobile rig with a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ in my truck and it works perfectly. Using _the exact same OS configuration_ but with this used DigiRig and radio, I’m having audio level issues where even setting the recording level to 6% (lowest possible) in alsamixer in Ubuntu, Dire Wolf still complains of audio levels being too high with some being around 120-150. I also tried setting this same thing up in Windows and the same issue with high audio levels occurs.
EDIT: I decided to [cut the trace between the two ATT pads](https://digirig.net/digirig-mobile-rev-1-9/#:~:text=Digirig%20Mobile%20now%20features%20%2D20dB%20input%20level%20attenuator.%20If%20the%20audio%20from%20the%20transceiver%20is%20too%20high%20and%20it%20can%20not%20be%20adjusted%20down%20using%20the%20regular%20level%20controls%2C%20then%20enable%20the%20attenuator%20by%20cutting%20the%20existing%20trace%20between%20the%20pads%20labeled%20%E2%80%9CATT%E2%80%9D.) as a test, knowing I could resolder them together if needed, however I don’t need to because it works now! I set the Capture level to 56 and now Dire Wolf is reporting audio levels between 40-70.
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### Author:  [@Constrainted](https://forum.digirig.net/u/Constrainted)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2023, 1:38am UTC](https://forum.digirig.net/t/digirig-satisfaction/274/11 "2023-04-22T01:38:16Z")
> [@ve7tzb](#):
>
> I decided to [cut the trace between the two ATT pads](https://digirig.net/digirig-mobile-rev-1-9/#:~:text=Digirig%20Mobile%20now%20features%20%2D20dB%20input%20level%20attenuator.%20If%20the%20audio%20from%20the%20transceiver%20is%20too%20high%20and%20it%20can%20not%20be%20adjusted%20down%20using%20the%20regular%20level%20controls%2C%20then%20enable%20the%20attenuator%20by%20cutting%20the%20existing%20trace%20between%20the%20pads%20labeled%20%E2%80%9CATT%E2%80%9D.) as a test, knowing I could resolder them together if needed, however I don’t need to because it works now!
Yes, thanks for reporting your solution to this issue! Glad to know attenuation brought it within range.
73 Constrainted