{"id":78,"date":"2020-03-21T15:34:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T15:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/?p=78"},"modified":"2021-07-27T16:19:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:19:48","slug":"signalink-jumpers-for-ft290r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"SignaLink Jumpers for FT290R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s how to set the jumpers in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tigertronics.com\/index.htm\">SignaLink USB<\/a> when connecting a Yaesu FT290R.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_1059.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG_1059.jpeg\" alt=\"FT290R Front\" width=\"599\" height=\"229\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tigertronics.com\/sl_wirebm.htm#YAESU\">jumper instructions on the Tigertronics website<\/a>\u00a0just a little too general, so this may save some time.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff2600;\">WARNING: I now think these are wrong. Please see my post of 27th July 2021.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Signalink-jumpers-for-FT290R-IMG_1043.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Signalink-jumpers-for-FT290R-IMG_1043.jpeg\" alt=\"Signalink jumpers for FT290R IMG 1043\" width=\"599\" height=\"430\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The SignaLink works fine with <a href=\"http:\/\/koomasi.com\/pocketpacket.html\">PocketPacket<\/a> on a Mac mini. \u2018Use Vox for PTT\u2019 was set in the PocketPacket Audio Modem preferences. The SignaLink delay knob was turned fully anticlockwise.<\/p>\n<p>Using this setup I could receive and decode signals from a local packet test GM7RYR-10. I transmitted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/amsat-uk.org\/beginners\/how-to-work-the-iss-on-aprs-packet-radio\/\">ISS packet digipeater<\/a> but didn\u2019t see any of my packets digipeated. However, I received my packets locally on my Yaesu FT60 and decoded them on a Raspberry Pi via <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/wb2osz\/direwolf\/blob\/master\/doc\/A-Better-APRS-Packet-Demodulator-Part-1-1200-baud.pdf\">Direwolf by WB2OSZ<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/xastir.org\/index.php\/Main_Page\">Xastir<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s how to set the jumpers in a SignaLink USB when connecting a Yaesu FT290R. I found the jumper instructions on the Tigertronics website\u00a0just a little too general, so this may save some time. WARNING: I now think these are wrong. Please see my post of 27th July 2021. The SignaLink works fine with PocketPacket &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/?p=78\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SignaLink Jumpers for FT290R&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[42,10,34],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","tag-digital","tag-packet","tag-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fletch.scot\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}