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Equipment / CB and JS8Call setup help
« on: January 12, 2022, 1324 UTC »
Hi all,
Hi all, I have a question about CB/11m (Yes, commence eye-rolling, I know.) I'm trying to set up a proof-of-concept over CB for purposes of sending JS8Call over CB.
Currently the setup is a CB radio hooked up to a USB sound card hooked to the laptop. However, I'm running into trouble hooking up the CB to the sound card: I can use the external speaker output 3.5mm jack to hook up to the sound card, but I can't easily connect the mic output to the sound card. The mic output is a basic 4-pin Cobra/Uniden, and I can't seem to find a way (or more likely I'm just too dumb) to make that connection.
There does exist a 4-pin-to-3.5mm connector on ebay, but it's out of Australia and will take a month and $65 to get to where I am.
Do any of you smart people know of a workaround here, or know of an off-the-shelf CB radio that will easily connect to a usb soundcard? I'd prefer not to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to. Thank you all in advance.
(Also, for context: I have a Xiegu 5105 setup for JS8Call already. The above project is more just a "see if possible" attempt. The Xiegu is 5w, CB is 4w; CB should function similar to the QRP radio I think, so I'd like to see what operations look like using a pure CB setup, and not extrapolating using, say, 10m stuff.)
Hi all, I have a question about CB/11m (Yes, commence eye-rolling, I know.) I'm trying to set up a proof-of-concept over CB for purposes of sending JS8Call over CB.
Currently the setup is a CB radio hooked up to a USB sound card hooked to the laptop. However, I'm running into trouble hooking up the CB to the sound card: I can use the external speaker output 3.5mm jack to hook up to the sound card, but I can't easily connect the mic output to the sound card. The mic output is a basic 4-pin Cobra/Uniden, and I can't seem to find a way (or more likely I'm just too dumb) to make that connection.
There does exist a 4-pin-to-3.5mm connector on ebay, but it's out of Australia and will take a month and $65 to get to where I am.
Do any of you smart people know of a workaround here, or know of an off-the-shelf CB radio that will easily connect to a usb soundcard? I'd prefer not to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to. Thank you all in advance.
(Also, for context: I have a Xiegu 5105 setup for JS8Call already. The above project is more just a "see if possible" attempt. The Xiegu is 5w, CB is 4w; CB should function similar to the QRP radio I think, so I'd like to see what operations look like using a pure CB setup, and not extrapolating using, say, 10m stuff.)
