Hi..new to this forum and hoping for some help. I've been trying to get my FT-857D up on FT8 and have been having nothing but trouble...cables, information, whatever...
I am trying to connect to a laptop running Windoze 8.1 Bing... I have the CAT cable from the 857 to the laptop but I think I also need to connect the speaker and mic on the radio to the computer... I just orderd a Sabrent Sound Adaptor and a set of cables to hook it up with...
Looking at the radio manual I can see the speaker/headphone jack on the left side front but the mic plugs into the radio with something other than any kind of standard plug...wondering WHERE to plug into a mic port on the radio? Poured over the drawings in the manual and nothing pops up to me...every time I think I've got it figured, something else pops up..I at one time had the wjst-x software tell me that the 'hamlib' file was missing...but that is apparently another problem unique to wjst-x. I also have DX Commander loaded and it isn't giving me anything useful...
Any help out there?
I feel like a 1G person living in a 5G world...
I am trying to connect to a laptop running Windoze 8.1 Bing... I have the CAT cable from the 857 to the laptop but I think I also need to connect the speaker and mic on the radio to the computer... I just orderd a Sabrent Sound Adaptor and a set of cables to hook it up with...
Looking at the radio manual I can see the speaker/headphone jack on the left side front but the mic plugs into the radio with something other than any kind of standard plug...wondering WHERE to plug into a mic port on the radio? Poured over the drawings in the manual and nothing pops up to me...every time I think I've got it figured, something else pops up..I at one time had the wjst-x software tell me that the 'hamlib' file was missing...but that is apparently another problem unique to wjst-x. I also have DX Commander loaded and it isn't giving me anything useful...
Any help out there?
I feel like a 1G person living in a 5G world...