New to me ICOM IC706Mk2 to HF + 2M radio pt3

IC706Mk2 Digital mode use

Tonight I swapped out my trust FT857 from it's role as my primary digital mode rig hooked up with my QTH Raspberry Pi for the IC706Mk2.

I wanted to document the settings so that others done have to undergo the trials that I did.

Data should be in USB mode NOT RTTY.

After a little bit of fiddling and reading the [HAMLIB doc](http://hamlib.sourceforge.net/pdf/rigctl.1.pdf)

So now it is fully functional on PAT Winlink (ARDOP), JS8Call, WSJTX etc.

PortablePi - A RaspberryPi for Amateur radio Portable Operators

This project might be of interest to some SOTA operators.

I wanted to see if I could make a field companion Raspberry Pi for Data modes - I would never lug my laptop into the bush.

Hardware:

• raspberry pi 3 with inbuilt wifi chip
• USB GPS dongle
• USB sound card
• ZLP USB radio interface

Capability:

• WSJT-X on RC1.9 for FT8 etc
• Fldigi
• Winlink using PAT - telnet only at this stage
• APRS via Xastir and Direwolf
• Logging using CQRLog - issues with database - working on that
• GPS updates onboard time - needed for Data modes and logging as well as GPS for APRS

How do you use it?
Well when the Pi is near a wifi network it knows it connects when it is not - say on your favourite summit - it creates a hotspot allowing headless control by any VNC device - tablet, phone etc.

Some pictures:

Set on top of my 817

Connected over VNC

Update: June 2018: http://wadeabout.com/blog/update-from-my-initial-testing-of-using-a-raspberry-pi-3-as-a-portable-option-for-amateur-radio-digital-modes

Wade
VK1MIC

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