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Step 2: Connect the computer audio cables and radio data/aux jack
Plug the RIGblaster’s mini plug stereo sound card audio input and output cables into
your computer’s sound connectors. Usually the sound card jacks on the back of a
desktop computer will be color coded correctly, so just match the colors.
If you have a desktop computer with rear panel jacks that are not color coded, plug the
green RIGblaster plug into the sound card line output
. Plug the blue RIGblaster
plug into the sound card line input
(you may use the mic input
but it will be more
difficult to adjust and may not work as well).
If you have a laptop computer, or you wish to use the front panel connectors on a
desktop computer, they will not be color-coded. Plug the RIGblaster’s green plug into
the headphone output
and plug the RIGblaster’s blue plug into the mic input.
Note it is preferable to use a line input if available.
Plug the RIGblaster’s data jack cable into the correct jack of your radio. You may need
to use a RIGblaster data/aux jack adaptors, if required with your radio. The plug &
play’s standard 6-pin mini-DIN plug will only work with certain radios. For example it will
work with an Icom IC746 data jack but not with an IC706 data jack.
You should connect amplified (wall supplied power) computer speakers to the
RIGblaster plug & play’s “COMPUTER” “spkr” jack. Normally you must use amplified
speakers so as not to load down the sound card output! If you do not have computer
speakers you may use 40 ohm, or higher, computer headphones. Speakers or
headphones are needed to be able to hear the computer and to tell if transmit or receive
audio is present!
Continue to the next step only if all the connections were identified and
connected properly.
