Ham Radio & Linux - Connecting the IC-705 to linux or a Raspberry Pi. 

Thank you Kevin for your videos. You are one of the very few USA English speaking RU-vid video makers who are articulating correctly and slowly enough so that the rest of the world, outside the USA, can understand it all from the first time listening to what is being explained. You are a born teacher! I hope that you can continue to make such a good instructive videos for ham radio community, and therefore I will become a (small) patron. And to the rest of the world: please join me in becoming a (even small) patron of Kevin. Thanks Kevin - Paul ON7ARF.

Seriously, no matter how many times I setup these radios, I refer back to you. I owe you so much. When you are in Oregon, you always have a place to rest and regroup. Looking forward to meeting you, one day. :)

Good stuff. I learned several tricks from this.

excellent video as usual Kevin, I always pick up something new watching your vids

Great job Kevin. You taught me something about automatic gain control as well. Still deciding on buying this radio and your videos are helpful. Nice talking with you on 80 meters a couple weeks back just after you acquired that radio. 73 from K6TJO!

The perfect video to use with the Pi-400 and IC-705 ! Thank you !

Yes ! My answer to how to configure my Icom IC 705 to the Raspberry PI to run digital modes. This is exactly what I needed for my setup. I really liked your description about using the filtering with Flrig and being able to control the radio remotely. I already got my usb cable and I am able to change the radio through the computer. This is awesome, great job on the video, I hope that you will be able do more videos on enhancing the capabilities of the IC 705 and being able to use the Raspberry PI to do more with the 705. Thank you. Eric

I love the conversational style of your videos. They're not only relaxed and friendly, but they're extra educational because in addition to the primary subject (connecting the IC-705 to a Linux computer), you also convey an enormous amount of very useful supplementary information - use of bandpass filtering in Fldigi to prevent interference from strong adjacent signals, setting audio output to avoid ALC distortion, and even good operating practices of tuning at low power not on top of someone and identifying yourself after tuning. When you finished with Fldigi and said, "Now for what everyone is interested in...", I thought for sure you were going to say JS8Call. FT8 is dead to me. 🤣

Excellent video. This shows a lot of how digital works in a very concise video.

Absolutely brilliant explanation Kevin. 👍👍

We also can record/playback QSO from/to the rig. Use Audacity or any sound recorder and select the audio device related to the rig. TO TX the playbacke audio we neeed to push TX key or PTT.. Thank you.

Excellent tutorial Kevin! You are really providing a service for ham radio. I'd love to see you share some more of your Linux knowledge in general. thanks

I use this setup all the time. Great demo, well explained Kevin :-D

Thanks Kevin. That'll be pinned in my watch later for when I get the 705 :-) Love Linux, and looks straightforward :-)

Wow! Great video, thank you. I just got the latest version of Ubuntu installed on a 17" laptop. I've just about had it with windows and HRD. Tomorrow afternoon I'll be looking at this video again as I connect my 7300 to the laptop. Thanks again!

Hi Kevin, I couldn't get HamPi to work with RPi- so I went back to basic setup. I am just loading WSJT-X and FLdigi/Flrig from source. Your explanations are clear and understandable. Thanks for your perceptive need for more information. Right on topic. :-) VE6KBI

Hello kevin. Tks for this video. Was very very helfull to configure my 7600 with my Ubuntu. Now I have all FL sw and wsjtx working nicely. 73

Good solid practical application of software and set up,great insight Kevin,regards Colin G1PGI

Well done Kevin excellent description and I don’t even have a 705

2021 - year of the Linux desktop. Again. :-) J/K (No diss intended - I'm a linux sys admin by trade) BTW thanks - I don't even ham my license yet, still waiting for our local authority to process my application, however I plan on hooking up my rig to linux so this has been hugely useful - thanks again.

Very informative learned some things for sure

Very clearly explained...

Kevin, At 7:45 you say WSJT-X doesn't support changing the CI-V. Well, the workaround is to tell WSJT-X to use FlRig as the radio, and not an IC-705. The bonus here is that you can send additional commands to the rig using FlRig while WSJT-X is operating. (Just be careful not to send conflicting commands to FlRig that confuses WSJT-X.)

Great video👍

Cool vid

Thanks Kevin!!

Thank you

Hi Kevin - well I learnt something about fldigi and flrig - ft8 is a pet hate of mine though !!

Thank you for this detailed setup information. Do you have a similar video for Windows 10 or Pi for the IC-7300? 73s, de N5DHT

Wonderful videos as always Kevin, thank you! :) Just some questions about the Rpi solution. Do you managed the current draw of the Rpi or do you run it as by the default settings? Portable use and battery drain thoughts... And do you know about any kind of Audio DSP programs to run with the Rpi? (Would like to use it with my FT-817, a sweepable BPF, Notch etc. would make wonders. Those IF filters are way to expensive. I know of the SotaBeams Laser filter but... if the Pi is already in the system...yeah.. just another thought.) / SA5VOX

Thanks for making this video! I had a question about the CI-V address “spoofing” - when you tell it to use the IC-7300 address, and tell your software to think it is an IC-7300, are you still able to use the VHF/UHF capabilities of the IC-705? (ie, would 2m FT-8 work, etc) Or does the software say “oh this is an IC-7300, so we’re not even gonna try to tune that high”?

Great video Kevin. Something I didn't know until i watched, Ray Novak in Josh HRCC video, pronounce it ci-5. Apparently the V stand for version 5. Did you have any luck with HamPi and audio system.

Good video. Have you had any experience with the SDR software for Linux/Mac? I think it is called cubicsdr. I am specifically asking about Linux. I am also wanting to do cat from a Kenwood TS-590SG. I find lots of help for windoze, but not Mac or Linux. 73!

Thanks for another great video. While I managed to get WSJT-X running fine from a PC, the RaspberryPi unfortunately stubbornly displays a Hamlib error when I try to connect it to the IC-705. I've replicated all the settings on the radio and inside WSJT-X that you suggest ... but no dice ... always the Hamlib error on attempting to connect to the radio ... can't figure this one out yet.

I am just starting with digi-705 is my first foray into this area. Will the RPi-400 do everything I need to run FT-8/JS8CALL? Thanks for your excellent instruction!

I see IC-705 is included in the current version of FLRIG 1.3.52. I have not downloaded any hamlib packages. VR NI0P

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As of 12/30/20, WSJT-X v2.2.2 - amd64 installation from the Princeton U. pulsar server appears to have broken dependencies on Linux Mint 20.2 and Ubuntu 20.10. Wsjt-x v.2.3.rc2 does install, but will die on 1/30/20. Ahhh, the wonders of Linux. --N2GX

WHich linux distribution are you using?

Hello Kevin Thank you for your excellent tutorial on how to connect Icom 705 with Linux I am a Linux user I writing on my mint Linux PC I have a wish from Father Christmas is either send me a New Icom 7300 UK spec 4 Meters 70Mhz or New Icom 705 I have to save up my money instead we can only dream Please more ham radio Linux tutorials 73's KG0PL