I would like to hook up my Begali CW Machine so that the keyer plays through my laptop’s speaker. I was told that the voltage is too high to work correctly should I plug it into the laptop directly, and that a soundcard could be a solution. Would the Digirig mobile work?
I don’t own the Begali CW machine. There is probably a way to use it with the Digirig mobile, and also directly with your PC soundcard, too.
In the manual, there is an explanation of the configurable TONE port on the Begali CW Machine. The settings are done here:
I think this is the right place to start. Have you checked into this?
73 Constrainted
Hi Constrained,
Thank-you for the reply. Yes, I understand the dip switch settings. I did get a powered speaker to work- giving me some decent audio. My computer is a Win11 machine. What I was angling for would allow me to run a audio cable from the Tone socket on the keyer to the microphone socket on the computer- and play my code thru the computers speakers. The dip switches won’t do anything to change the Tone output to anything manageable by the computer. The suggestion was to change the microphone socket to Line In value. Looking online, there is seemingly no instruction showing me explicit instruction as to how to go about this. Which has always been my experience- my screen never looks like their screen.
the digirig audio in will absolutely ‘take’ the output from the begali cw machine.
the digirig audio in handles ‘speaker level output’ from ham radios so it will handle it from any other modest speaker driving device.
since you used ‘powered’ speakers in testing, i’m confident the audio output level of the begali will not abuse a digirig.
computer mic in vs line in.
my pc has a mic in jack that is pink.
it also has a line in jack that is blue.
some ‘built in audio’ have jacks that can be reassigned.
type in mmsys.cpl in the windows start/app/search box.
that’ll open a control panel for your audio devices.
rummage around in there to see if there is an option to change the mic in to line in (for audio level managing)
the real hurdle will be setting up windows to take the input from one souncard (digirig/begali) and actually repeat it/output it on another soundcard’s speakers.
this is beyond my area of expertise.
good luck
kb0wlf
Thank-you for that! My control panel looked different last night. I will try to find audio level management.
I think I may be able to do the latter by using a virtual cable? I was successful with that in hooking up an rtl sdr to wspr.
73,
W3PB
yes, the control panel options will be determined by the capabilities of the hardware itself.
so you may not have the option to change the role of the input jack from ‘mic’ to ‘line’.
regardless, if you drag the slider for MIC down to 1% to start, you should be good to go.
if you do use a digirig, you can select the ‘listen to this device’ checkbox and then select the computer built in soundcard speakers and you won’t need a virtual cable program.
kb0wlf
