Hi Bill, Thank you for your patience. I have everything working but radio control. It seems the new Mac OS 11.5.2 with the M1 chip doesn’t recognize the driver. There is something about using applicat

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Ok Bill Thanks! I believe the radio manual references some drivers and I’ll get them installed. I’ll keep you posted!

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I do have the CAT cable for the radio that is a USB Connector. I’m using the audio cable and VOX and truthfully I’m not sure what the difference is. The sound card I have, Sabrent, has the 3.5 mm plug

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Well first off thank everyone for helping me. I have the software running and am copying transmissions on the band. I can double click on CQ’s and if I enable the TX it appears to be sending. However,

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Just did this in the Audio midi app

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Well, can’t seem to change that to USB on channel B unless I shift the frequency to 20m. The TX500 has a Digital mode that is supposed to be optimized for digital modes. Right now I have the CAT cable

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Ok I thought that was channel B, I’ll reset it. Thanks!

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Good point! Let me see why the Sabrent didn’t show up. Thank you!

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Yes I am getting tones and the software switches to receive mode.

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From the sound card red (stereo out) to the mic red on the rem/data port. Green mic in on the sound card to the green head phone on the rem/data port. Here is what it looks like right now. Thank you f

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Ok thank you. There are 3 ports on the Tx500, mic/spkr; rem/data/ and cat. I have tried all three with no luck. The radio mode is digital and I am on 7074. The audio settings on the Mac are

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I’m not sure how to do that. Perhaps I should reboot the computer and see if that works.

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Still no luck receiving anything. It looks like it is transmitting but nothing received. I even turned off the transmit to just monitor and still nothing.

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Ahhhh that’s brilliant!! I’ll try it in a few minutes. Thank you.

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On Aug 24, 2021, at 6:27 PM, Bill Somerville <g4wjs@...> wrote: Hi Mark, so no CAT interface, set "Preferences->Radio->Rig->None" and "Preferences->Radio->PTT Method->VOX". You will need t

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Well it looks like I am transmitting CQ but there is no band activity showing. I’m on 7074.0 Digital with power 5 watts and antenna at 1.0 SWR. Should I be receiving something or is it just slow on th

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YEAH!!!! It appears to be working!!! Let’s see if I get a ‘QSO! Awesome and thank you so much!

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Hi Bill and thank you for your quick reply. I have a MacBook Air M1 running OS Big Sur 11.5.2. Connected to one of the two USB C ports is a Sabrent USB C Exterior Stereo Sound Adapter for Windows and

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I am not very good with computers and am trying to load WSJTX on a MacBook Pro. I downloaded the file, dragged the icon over and restarted the computer. It seems like the program loaded but I’m gettin

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I’m using a Sabrent adapter for Mac and plugging the mike and head phone jacks to the Mic/Sp port on the TX 500. I have ordered the audio cable for the CAT port.

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