How to FT8 with your Kenwood TS-570D Relic Radio

Now I want an old Kenwood.

We all know the excellent Receive of Kenwood. The TS-570D (G) was one of the Best Radio that ever entered my Shack back then.Very simple Menu Guidance. Bombastic TX Audio. What else more can a HAM just ask for? PLS never sell this awsome Transceiver, Steve. Happy Holidays to you and the Girls...73 de YFUG 💯🙋‍♂

The TS-570S was my first Ham radio when I got my Foundation license in 2008. It was also my only HF radio and used for digital modes until the antenna tuner relays started to fail a couple of years ago, so I had an excuse to buy a 7300. If your guide had been around several years ago it would have saved me a lot of head scratching. - Tracy VK3TTT

Love it Steve, the older rigs deserve a workout now and then.

TS-570D is NOT a relic! It has no tubes!

Always a wealth of knowledge. Thanks Steve. I also sent your info to a friend. He was shocked that someone was covering it.

Relic! I resemble that remark! My TS 570D is great.

Thank goodness sonebody is using WSJT-X on a Mac. New sub. VE3NAP

Lost n the woods trying to get this working thank you. A fully technical and detailed view of what to do.

Наверное, единственный в Мире полный обзор подключения TS-570D для работы в FT8!) Коллега, спасибо, 73!

RELIC?!?! Try the digital modes on something like my venerable TS-850SAT… (I do!)

Thanks again for picking me up! Glad to work you - N1JUR

Relic? my TS-520s works wonderfully with WSJT-X and JS8Call, using the phone patch and VOX, cabled straight to an old Macbook for audio.. no USB connection.. No driver issues.. No CAT headaches. None of this needs to be complicated.

Thanks for this video. I've been fighting for rig control on my TS-570D(G) forever. I ordered the needed parts.

Hi. JERRY, WB7WBW. I am having some trouble getting on FT8 with my TS-570SG, SIGNALINK USB and Windows 10 laptop. Are the settings for all 570s the same? Do I use the com, acc2 and remote connections on the radio? Do I need a null mode cable with USB3 and a connector for the remote connection? I have watched a lot of videos and they all seem to be different. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Late production run 570s have a quirky Cat Control setup. Try running WSJT-X using OmniRig 1 for CAT control. --> Thanks to @SkeletalPiper

"I prefer no AGC at all" I have heard this a lot lately and this, to me, is a sign of someone that does not understand how a radio works : you cannot have a HF receiver without any AGC because it is impossible to receive signals which fluctuates from 0.5 micro volt to 50 micro volt + without it totally overloading your receiver, without AGC, and distorting the signal, you need AGC just like you need ALC during transmission: it prevents distortion! The null modem adaptor is normally not necessarily and can give you a lot of problems, In the manual of the TS-570 it shows that it does not need it if your are connecting to a serial port only when you are connecting two radios via serial port then you need to swap RX and TX. The one thing that one should consider is the fact that the TS-570 standard 20Mhz reference oscillator is 10PPM and it could drift or be off frequency by up to 50Hz on 10 Mhz, 100Hz on 21Mhz, so you may want to upgrade your Reference oscillator with an aftermarket one.

Am I that Old Lol. I remember sending Slowscan TV to my local Hams Friends.. the 570 Would have been unmatched 25 years ago..

we used that radio for disaster relief communications during katrina

Did everything exactly as shown, I get an error "Rig Control Error" and that's it. Wondering if you might have any ideas.