Specification

General features

  • Transceiver audio interface for operating digital modes, voice recording and playback
  • Microphone and foot switch inputs
     
  • CAT (Computer Aided Transceiver) system
  • FSK output
  • Built-in electronic CW keyer (WINKEY version 10)

Computer connection
 
  • USB (Universal Serial Bus) connector
  • Powered from the USB port (consuming 100 mA maximum)
  • No external power supply needed
     

Transceiver connection
 
  • Single 25-pin connector for transceiver cable
  • Various transceiver models supported
     

Audio interface
 
  • Insulated from digital nets
  • Maximum input/output amplitude is 1V
  • Input/output samplerate: 8 to 48 kHz
  • True 16-bit DAC/ADC used
  • Volume levels are adjusted by the front panel potentiometers and on-board jumpers.

External microphone and foot switch inputs
 
  • Electret or dynamic microphone
  • Microphone level is adjusted by front panel potentiometer and on-board jumper
  • Foot switch input accepts “dry contact” or open-collector sources

     
CAT serial port
 
  • Baudrate: 300-115200 baud
  • Electrical compatibility: RS-232, CI-V, TTL or inverted-TTL (Yaesu, Icom, Kenwood, Ten-Tec, Elecraft and JRC transceivers)
  • Additional CAT output: RS-232 levels
     

PTT/CW outputs
 
  • PTT output: open collector and TTL-level
  • CW output: open collector, either software or WINKEY
  • Maximum current is 500 mA
  • Additional PTT output: open collector, 500 mA maximum
     

FSK output
 
  • Open collector output
  • Baudrate is adjusted by the on-board jumpers (preset to 45.45 baud)
  • "Software" FSK option by using the PTT/CW/SOFTFSK port
     

System requirements
 
  • Desktop or laptop computer with USB 1.1 or USB 2.0 compliant port
  • Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 or Mac OS or Linux operating system