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#NEWS SERVICE RTTY USING FLDIGI INSTALL#

You need to be root to do this:Ĭheck your GNU/Linux distro: debian based distro's use apt-get to install sw, other distros can be different. Now for the software part: being on DEVUAN Gnu/Linux 😉 I just had to install fldigi and flrig.

Depending on the distro you're using, you need to be root to use the following command: dmesg | grep USB You can use 'dmesg' on a console to check the correct serial port. Your USB to SERIAL port device (the Yaesu itself) MUST be seen as a new serial port, usually /dev/ttyUSB0 or something like that.

You don't need any serial driver whatsoever if you're using GNU/Linux.

USB DRIVERS? WHAT DRIVERS? THIS IS GNU/LINUX! I can't find any usage manual about this damned CAT U5 LINK interface for Yaesu. Leave the USB connector on the CAT interface alone! I plugged mine with a piece of electrical black tape so I never see it again. The USB Cable must be connected from your computer to the BACK OF THE YAESU FT-891.

USB CABLE from PC to YAESU! This is THE TRICKY PART that drove me nuts: the damned USB CABLE! I wasted days because I connected it wrong.ĬAT interface has an USB connector and I used that.

Don't push or force them in position: they must slide normally. They can't be inserted wrong or reversed, because they're different.

CAT INTERFACE to YAESU: here came 2 cables that connects to the CAT and to the rear of the YAESU FT-891.

If you have a laptop with the damned 4 pin jack, you need some sort of adapter to split MIC and AUDIO OUTPUT from the laptop to go into the CAT interface. This is simple and I dont wanna waste time explaining this trivial setup. AUDIO connections: use 2 jacks cables, from the cat interface to the computer one goes to the output and one goes to the mic input of the pc.You need to connect everything: the CAT interface to the yaesu and the computer, the computer itself to the yaesu radio.

#NEWS SERVICE RTTY USING FLDIGI HOW TO#

In this howto, I'm assuming you know how to use and manage your GNU/Linux system. So I wrote MY OWN HOWTO about how to connect the YAESU FT-891 to a laptop or a computer, using GNU/Linux operating system and a CAT interface called U5 LINK. Seem that some old howto was simply copypasted into other howto's, propagating some errors. I searched this topic all around and I found a lot of wrong informations.

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