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ICOM-7300 Random Bits
Foreword
CAUTION: I have no way of confirming any of the information below since I don't own this rig.
This is a collection of notes I have received from viewers. It is made available in hope of helping you get your Icom rig running with the build-a-pi script. If you find errors, find it helpful, or would like to add to this document, please email me and let me know. mycall@arrl.net
Rig Control FLRIG with Firmware 1.40
If you are having trouble with FLRIG after upgrading the firmware to 1.40, see this post
Pat PTT without VOX
Preferred Method
Open Pat Menu and then click on Manage Pat Winlink. Now click on Set ARDOP PTT. Change this setting too true and click Set PTT. (Note: The current setting is displayed in bold at the top of of the window)
Alternate Method
For PTT control with Pat Winlink when you are not using VOX, you may need to enable PTT in Pat. Do so by running the following command from terminal pat configure
Under the ARDOP section look for
"ptt_ctrl": false,
And change to
"ptt_ctrl": true,
Save and exit with ctrl+x then y and then enter on the keyboard.
What do I choose in FLRIG
You can run ls -la /dev/serial/by-id/ to find your controller. You should see something like this returnedlrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Mar 8 07:54 usb-Silicon_Labs_CP2102_USB_to_UART_Bridge_Controller_IC-7300_02005779-if00-port0 -> ../../ttyUSB0 indicating in this case you need to use ttyUSB0 in FLRIG
Radio not seen by Pi
If you have GPS configured on your pi, the radio may be seen as a time source and not a sound card. This is an odd behavior that seems unique to Icom radios. Run the following command in terminal cat /etc/default/gpsd | grep USBAUTO It should return USBAUTO="false". If it returns true, run the following sudo nano /etc/default/gpsd Change the true too false. Save and exit with ctrl+x, then y, and then enter on the keyboard. Reboot the pi and see if the pi will now "see" your radio.
Beyond this, I can only offer the following documentation. The viewer that submitted this documentation built his pi using my build-a-pi script
Pat Menu Setting to control mode changes when using Pat Menu
Viewer Email - 7300 Setup
Icom 7300 Digital Knowledge Base
Ken, NB6S, Setup Document for IC7300
Follow up email from above
just wanted to pass along a couple of settings I used with the IC-7300 to get WSJT-X and JSCall going on the Raspberry Pi 4. The initial set up (Radio set to "FLRig FLRig", etc.) was done per the standard Raspberry Pi 4 settings in your videos. However, there were a couple of things that appear to be unique to the IC-7300.
First, tip of the cap to a post David KD4E made in the RaspberryPi4-HamRadio Groups.io pages with his settings. David was using an IC-7100 but some of his settings helped with the IC-7300 as well.
The first key item was the Audio settings where:
Input: "iec958:CARD=CODEC,DEV=0" Output: "iec958:CARD=CODEC,DEV=0"
work with my IC-7300.
The other key items were: (i) have both the "Data Off Mod" and "Data Mod" set to USB; and (ii) "CI-V USB Port" set to Link to [Remote] with "CI-V Echo Back" to Off.
Everything else pretty much matches the settings in the Icom white paper for digital settings (attached / previously provided for Pat / ARDOP). This was using a RPi4 with the program downloads from "Build-A-Pi" V2.
From another viewer:
Success with hamlib running an Icom IC-9700!!
For the 9700, in Pat Configure, under Ardop, change "PTT_ctrl" to true I have my rig CI-V USB port set for 19200. The IC-9700 accepts the same controls as the IC-7300 (#373 in rigctl -l) with the exception being the CI-V address which is A2h on the rig. So the rig control daemon command becomes: rigctld -m 373 -r /dev/ttyUSB0 -s 19200 --civaddr \0xA2
I think you can also use -c 162 for CI-V address, but haven't tested it.
For rig set up, refer to CI-V settings in: https://groups.io/g/RigPi/topic/34525974?p=Created,,,20,2,0,0
Pat Winlink using hamlib rocks!
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