WOAD and the ICOM HT (ie ID-50A)

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Has anyone been able to get the Digirig lite to work with WOAD in Android? My setup is Galaxy S25 Ultra>Digirig lite> ICOM HT ID-50A.

Brian

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Yes, that’s pretty common use case.

If you are experiencing difficulties with the setup, please provide specifics: is Digirig detected by the phone? Do you get the decodes? Can you key up the radio for transmit? Do you get picked up by other stations etc.

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Well we got it to work with WOAD but we had to modify the ID-50 cable by cutting a lot of the plastic off around the shoulders of the pins. My buddy had a dial calipers handy and the pins were to seating far enough in. We also tried ATAK, APRS droid, and Android JS8Call, but the other three apps were not a success. My buddy had a Baofeng with the Digirig pig tail and it worked on APRS Droid and JS8Call. Getting back to ATAK it would key the ID-50 and send audio but none of our devices would recv the chat messages.

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Let’s clarify term “devices” and make distinction between audio and decoded messages:

  • your station keys up, but does the remote stations hear the audio from your station?
  • can they decode your audio into the messages?
  • does your station receive the audio response from the remote station?
  • does your station decode the received audio?
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In regards to ATAK using the HAMMER plug-in (devices I am referring to are the Android phones, one is a Samsung S25 Ultra and the other is a Motorola), the phones key the radio and TX audio, hearing audio via 3rd radio on freq. Neither side is decoding chat messages.

Android JS8Call I am going to wait. I think there are still a lot of bugs. I uninstalled it because it was drawing down phone battery when not in use.

APRSDroid I will have to do some more research, lots of different versions. There is also a “improved version”

Thanks for your help

Brian

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Yeah, sounds like a software issue if you got it working on the same hardware with a different app (eg WOAD).