Icom IC-R8600 How-to Manual

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How to use the IC-R8600 as an SDR receiver

The IC-R8600 (version 1.30 or later) can output the In-phase/Quadrature data which is processed by the FPGA.

Connect [I/Q OUT] to a PC’s USB port, and you can control the IC-R8600 from a PC using the HDSDR software.

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These instructions are based on using Microsoft

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 Windows

®

 10.

Procedure outline

To use HDSDR, first follow the steps described below.

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See “About the HDSDR software operations” that can be downloaded from the Icom website for detail about how to use the 

software.

Step 1 Confirming the IC-R8600 firmware version 

(See the IC-R8600 Instruction manual Section 13.)

Confirm the IC-R8600 firmware version is 1.30 or later.

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If the IC-R8600 firmware version is 1.20 or earlier, download the latest version from the Icom website, and update your 

IC-R8600. 

http://www.icom.co.jp/world/support/

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See the IC-R8600 Instruction manual (Section 13) for detail about how to update the IC-R8600.

Step 2 Installing HDSDR

You can use HDSDR (freeware) as the SDR software.

Download HDSDR from the HDSDR website and install it.

 http://www.hdsdr.de/

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Install HDSDR before installing the IC-R8600 USB I/Q Package for HDSDR.

Step 3 Installing the IC-R8600 USB I/Q Package for HDSDR 

(p. 3)

To control the IC-R8600 from a PC using HDSDR, download the IC-R8600 USB I/Q Package for HDSDR from the 

Icom website, and install it.

 http://www.icom.co.jp/world/support/

The IC-R8600 USB I/Q Package for HDSDR contains “ExtIO_ICR8600.dll*” and the IQ driver.

*  The DLL file is normally stored in the same folder that is installed HDSDR as the default.

(Example: C:\Program Files\HDSDR)

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DO NOT

 connect the IC-R8600 and a PC until the driver installation has been completed.

Step 4 Connecting the IC-R8600 and a PC 

(p. 5)

Connect the USB cable (User supplied) between the IC-R8600’s [I/Q OUT] port and a PC’s USB port, and then turn 

ON the IC-R8600.

Step 5 Using HDSDR 

(See “About the HDSDR software operations.”)

See “About the HDSDR software operations” for your reference of using the HDSDR software with the IC-R8600.