Yaesu FTDX-1200 Digirig Issues

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Hi Everyone,

So I bought the cables I need for my Yaesu FTDX-1200 and have been trying for months to get this thing to work. I then put it off for a few months as life got pretty busy and I’m back at it trying to get it to work but no matter I do nothing is going to the radio. I’ve tried to get this to work on WSJT-X and CAT control just fails each time. I have the pads in the Digirig soldered for RS232 as this radio uses RS232 for CAT control. So finally I decided to do a loopback test and followed the instructions provided on the troubleshooting page here on the Digirig website. Now my issue is all I have connected to the digirig is the USB-C cable from Digirig to the Digirig itself and I’m getting character output in PuTTY without even connecting the TRRS to DB9 cable. Am I looking at a defective Digirig board? Or is there something that I’m missing here? Any feedback to help solve this issue would be awesome.

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Ok so I’ve figured out why the digirig was outputting without anything connected to it, it was because I still had a bit of the logic level pads still connected so I’ve gone over it again with an xacto knife and ensured this time nothing remained on those connections and I resoldered everything to be on RS232 connections however now when i do the loopback nothing is coming back. I may have a dead cable.

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Lou,
When you are doing loopback test, make sure you connect pins 2 & 3 on the DB9 side of the cable.
DM if you want me to re-test your Digirig and make sure that the serial port survived the solder jumpers modifications.