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To get my Yaesu FT-450D working with WSJT-X with Digirig mobile and CAT control I did the following as I could not get the WSJT-X built in FT-450D CAT controls to work: Software versions:  FLRig 2.0.05 WSJT-X 2.6.1 MacOS Intel 14.7.3 In the FT-450D Menu setting I set the following values: CAT RTS = ENABLE CAT TOT = 3000 CAT RATE = 9600 D TYPE = USER-U Note: The CAT RATE also seems to work with the setting on the FT-450D set to 38400 and the Baud Rate in FLRig set to 38400. In FLRig the following are the screen grabs of my settings. Note: I've since reduced the Poll intvl to 100 to see if the various Poll data like S-level, SWR and Power output would refresh faster, and it does.  In WSJT-X the following are screen grabs of my settings: Usage: Run FLRig first Then run WSJT-X     73, Mark VO1BS/VO1MCH

To get Winlink Email working (both send and receive emails) on MacOS intel with MacOS Sonoma 14.7.2 and a MacBook Air 2018 using a USB sound card dongle here is what I did. Use at your own risk. I make no promises this will work for you. Set Up a Winlink Email Account First of course create a Winlink email account here https://www.winlink.org/ Install Mac Ports and WINE I then installed Mac Ports. https://www.macports.org/ In the MacOS Terminal app I then did as follows: Installed Wine (wine-stable) using Mac Ports.  sudo port install wine-stable Install VARA HF Then I used Wine to install "VARA setup (run as Administrator).exe" wine “VARA setup (run as Administrator).exe” Then I had to copy over a bunch of DLLs from my Windows 10 machine that were in the Windows/syswow64 directory into the .wine/drive_c/windows/syswow64 directory on the Mac Specifically:  MSCHRT20.OCX MSCOMCTL.OCX MSCOMM32.OCX msvbvm60.dll MSWINSCK.OCX Install Winlink Pat I installed Winlink Pat from her...