

Clifford Wareham ( N5CEY ) offers a service that is a life saver with integrating your radio- he makes the “Easy Digi”, which consists of a USB port and two auxiliary jacks on one end, and a radio interface on the other.

Sometimes interfacing the radio with a computer is as easy as soldering a few wires together, other times it’s significantly easier to purchase an interface for your radio. The most important part about selecting your radio is that it has a proven and reliable way to interface it with a computer, and which other ham users have reported good signal quality with it. The radio doesn’t have to be a quad-band radio, or capable of cross band repeat– a cheap radio like the Kenwood TM-281A (which currently sells for $135) will work well. The Easy Digi interface for my TYT TH-9800 radioįor an APRS digipeating solution, the first obstacle to tackle (and the most critical) is to select a good 2-meter radio.
