ADMS-16 is out, does anyone care?

Yaesu has finally released ADMS-16 for programming the FTM-500DR. I bought one a few months back and the software wasn’t available then, and it isn’t supported by CHIRP yet, so I faced either paying $$$ for RT Systems’ solution or programming manually. At first manual was fine. I have about ten repeaters that go every.

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Save multiple ALSA sound profiles

As I continue to add capabilities I’ve learned that different software, for reasons I yet to understand, require different audio levels. WSJT-X requires audio set to one level. Vara another. Direwolf benefits from a couple different levels depending on what I’m doing (YAAC or Pat for example) and how well I can hear stations nearby.

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FT5DR Programming Software on Pi using Wine

Chirp and Chirp-Next are still lacking support for the FT5DR and even though I’d rather use one of those I decided to load the official ADMS 14 software on to my Pi. Since Wine was already installed (with Vara) I figured at worst there would be just a couple tweaks required. I wasn’t disappointed. Started.

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Give USB audio devices persistence in ALSA

ALSA is powerful. Incredibly flexible. Because of that it’s almost guaranteed to be complicated. I spend a lot of time plugging and unplugging different audio devices into my machines in different places. The way ALSA identifies sound cards (USB, built-in, HDMI, whatever) is that the first one detected becomes card0. The next is card1. The.

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