DigiRig Mobile - Combines Audio Codec With Serial CAT And PTT

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  • čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
  • Here we take a look at the Digirig Mobile device which offers great connectivity between radios and computers to allow operating Digital Comms with ease.
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Komentáře • 47

  • @n3iyr
    @n3iyr Před 19 dny +2

    This is a must have for digital. The cables are high quality as well.

  • @TobotronPrime
    @TobotronPrime Před 8 měsíci +1

    I bought one of these to get into digital, starting with WSPR - got all the way from the UK to the DE Antarctic Station on my first go - very happy with it especially as the company in the US made cables for all my Yaesu radios!

  • @TheZolon
    @TheZolon Před 11 měsíci +2

    I have 2 of these, 2 signalinks, and both versions of the mobalink tnc3/4. I really like the digirig for almost everything that the others can do.

  • @g0fqb
    @g0fqb Před 11 měsíci +5

    About to pull the trigger on one of these useful video thanks

  • @the_mad_swimbaiter455
    @the_mad_swimbaiter455 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Very thorough. Ive been using digirig with my go kit. Great product

  • @M0JSX
    @M0JSX Před 11 měsíci +1

    I've had one of these for a little while (video on my channel). It is brilliant. I now use it pretty much exclusively as an interface between my PC and the FT-8900 for APRS use with direwolf.

    • @TechMindsOfficial
      @TechMindsOfficial  Před 11 měsíci

      Dude, try the M17 Tools. Possibly we can make a M17 digital contact on 2M?

  • @ralphshepard1
    @ralphshepard1 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I have a couple of these, they are great easy to use and versatile.

  • @hzgl
    @hzgl Před 11 měsíci +11

    Vara is practically a closed-source proprietary technology at this point, it won’t be able to compete against the FT8-family of digital modes in the long run.

    • @26TM034
      @26TM034 Před 11 měsíci +2

      some great features in Vara ac and more to come, text messages small pics and files.. pass at - 14 to 19 db its very robust... its 121 chat and op, s..
      ft8 is more robotic..

    • @pauls8456
      @pauls8456 Před 11 měsíci +2

      Ft8 is glorified WHSPR, at least with other digital modes like Vara you can actually communicate with someone…..

    • @Stuart_MM7SHX
      @Stuart_MM7SHX Před 11 měsíci

      @@pauls8456 JS8Call is the implementation of FT8 for dialogue

    • @LeeMcc_KI5YPR
      @LeeMcc_KI5YPR Před 11 měsíci +5

      An FT8 mode is JS8CALL, which is for keyboard QSO and rag chew.

    • @Philip-KA4KOE
      @Philip-KA4KOE Před 11 měsíci

      Brilliant interface.

  • @marsgal42
    @marsgal42 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I bought one of these a while back to help my laptop talk to my Icom 706MK2G. I was startled at how small it is.

  • @pcfreak1992
    @pcfreak1992 Před 11 měsíci +5

    Did you check out the DigiLink Nano? It offers USB isolation which the DigiRig needs an additional adaptor for.

    • @TechMindsOfficial
      @TechMindsOfficial  Před 11 měsíci +3

      It may not have it, but I didn’t experience any issues without it. Maybe someone running lots of power may need one, but I can’t comment on that.

    • @moozoowizard
      @moozoowizard Před 11 měsíci +1

      ​​@@TechMindsOfficialmy experience is that I needed a USB isolator and to wrap the USB cable many times around an ft230-43 toroid.
      This was to stop RFI from the computer getting into the audio in.
      USB isolators are often used by hifi enthusiasts with USB soundcards.
      With my desktop PC the front panel USB cables take a longish path from the motherboard to the front panel. Maybe a direct port off the motherboard wouldn't have the problem. I also run homeplug ethernet over power so that ends up everywhere.

  • @kengilcrest8670
    @kengilcrest8670 Před 11 měsíci +3

    What radios offer this 9600 baud port ?

  • @fotografm
    @fotografm Před 11 měsíci

    Am looking forward to your video about M17 🙂

  • @chasiu75
    @chasiu75 Před 4 měsíci

    Is your USB C connection sensitive on the Digirig end? Mine disconnects at a slight bump and I am using their cable.

  • @CommunicationsCigars
    @CommunicationsCigars Před 11 měsíci +1

    Did a review on my channel showing how it is NOT just data but voice options also.
    Use mine for P.A.R.S. and as a Zello GW

  • @siddharth4662
    @siddharth4662 Před 23 dny

    Looking for using Winlink between 2 computers and Baofengs connected to exchange email.
    Do you have a video on that??

  • @aquahood
    @aquahood Před 11 měsíci

    Hey, I was thinking about another project integrating a chip with all thr known digital modes (open source) in conjunction with a handled computer and adding a clock (Upgrade with that really small GPS disaplined temp Crystal). A pack of antenna like some normal rods, and the acrylic long V dipole your checked out m, and a plain throw it in the tree inverted dipoles. So an ARM, a Xylix FPGA, and 100 tensor cores to boot. Four Bios chips with dip switchs to firmware the device default, or load up an alternate, or xombine the space, or have FPGA blank slates to help teach the interplay with RF, FPGAs, and Arm with an ESP 32 cams for use with the FPGA snd tensors or the tensors could be used to store as it could in Aldum Pluto GUI Radio standalone woth RTOS or Linux lite already on one or two of the deadicated bios chips depending on which dip switched you set. A SD card is included with the board for plenty of storage. It would be a learning tool, off grid emergency coms, or mere RF and FPGA / Tensor cores special signal identification with neural networking, snd perhaps the guts of the digi rig built in with all the new and old digital modes availabie on one chip with its own memory snd perhaps a small yet capable co-proceseor. No need to have a seperate device. The kit worh the screen and keyboard etc comes with no MCU, CPU or FPGA, you must supply l a compatible one and there sre many choices. Well im going to have a look at the open source if rhe platform sbd then tskk to PCBWay or someone like this to see what it would cost to make a premium learning snd teaching platform with image id, FPGA, and a retro but super interesting use of an older os as a tie between micropython and python as well as a built-in FPGA programer and pytorch or tensorflow for a 100 or so small tensors (in my dreams cuda given the software support for Nvida). But all packaged in a larger sized scientific calculator.

  • @fidellavignejr9605
    @fidellavignejr9605 Před 11 měsíci

    I would love to get one of these but the price in Canada is ridiculous, 3 time the cost of the US and that doesn't include shipping and taxes.

    • @digirig
      @digirig Před 11 měsíci

      You may be looking at the prices from private resellers. If you order directly from the website you'll have pay around $15-20 in shipping to Canada and no sales tax. There may be some small import fee on your end.

  • @nerdgarage
    @nerdgarage Před 11 měsíci

    Why in [censored] are the logo, usb, and audo/serial ports labeled in different axis ? It can't be THAT hard to put everything on the same axis. This makes me question how much foresight they put into the rest of the product.

    • @JonathanKayne
      @JonathanKayne Před 11 měsíci

      Think about how the circuit board and components are laid out and you would have your answer. There is a USB C socket and two TRRS sockets. The only way to do what you suggest is to either use a tiny font or use a stacked TRRS socket, which would drive up the cost (assuming such a component even is commercially available)

    • @chrissewell1608
      @chrissewell1608 Před 9 měsíci +1

      Who cares? It works!

  • @ShowAnNDTeLL
    @ShowAnNDTeLL Před 10 měsíci

    js8call?

  • @justDIY
    @justDIY Před 11 měsíci +1

    I was hoping to see the insides of the unit. A rather incomplete review without even a quick look under the cover.

    • @TechMindsOfficial
      @TechMindsOfficial  Před 11 měsíci

      If you want to see inside then look on their website, plenty of photos of the main board. “Incomplete review”… what you want, blood? Liking your own comments also is frowned upon….

    • @AdrianBoyko
      @AdrianBoyko Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@TechMindsOfficial I didn’t like his comment, but I gave it a thumbs up so that he can remove his self thumbs up. It was a good review. Thanks!

    • @AdrianBoyko
      @AdrianBoyko Před 9 měsíci +3

      @@TechMindsOfficialI also gave both of my sub-comments, here, the thumbs up.

    • @AdrianBoyko
      @AdrianBoyko Před 9 měsíci +3

      @@TechMindsOfficialAnd I gave your reply to him a thumbs down even though I agree with it. Will also self-like this one.

    • @TechMindsOfficial
      @TechMindsOfficial  Před 9 měsíci +1

      lol Adrian, I like your sense of humour :) I must of been having a bad day! Thumbs down for sure

  • @pauls8456
    @pauls8456 Před 11 měsíci +2

    FT8 is glorified WSPR, at least with other digital modes like Vara you can actually communicate with someone…..

    • @MarkPentler
      @MarkPentler Před 11 měsíci +5

      I see you care enough about this to post it twice

    • @norrinradd8952
      @norrinradd8952 Před 11 měsíci +3

      WSPR is as different to FT8 as FT8 is to Vara. They are each a different tool.
      To anyone else not in the know, with WSPR, you transmit a software generated signal and then check a map on the internet to see who heard you, otherwise you set up a listening station to contribute propagation data to the WSPR project's database.
      With FT8, you also transmit a software generated signal, but you exchange call signs, grid squares and a signal report with another operator to make a QSO.

    • @sassycommentfactory
      @sassycommentfactory Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@MarkPentler Sad ham hate FT8. FT8 make sad ham ANGRY.

    • @sassycommentfactory
      @sassycommentfactory Před 11 měsíci

      @@MarkPentler Sad ham hate FT8. FT8 make sad ham ANGRY.

    • @MARRANCA2
      @MARRANCA2 Před 11 měsíci

      @pauls8456
      No one asked for your opinion. Twice.
      Settle down, dummy.