RS-BA1 Mic Reset

For some reason the RS-BA1 seems to reset the mic input setting sometimes. That results in silent transmissions and always costed me several minutes to find the reason. This might be a result of using a Bluetooh headset. At least when the Bluetooh headset is not coupled it happens that I cannot use the built-in mic of the tablet running the RS-BA1.

So here is the setting that needs to be set to MIC so that the mic source is the mic of the unit running the RS-BA1. This is a note to myself for the case that I run the risk of loosing the DX because MIC in is set incorrectly.

RS-BA1 Mic Setting for Remote Input
RS-BA1 Mic Setting for Remote Input

Update 27.09.2022

After encountering the problem again it seems there is another setting you can put wrong. It is in the ICOM Remote Utility. For an unknown reason the MOD Select option was set to “none” where it should be “Mic”. The follwing picture shows the correct setting.

Mic Settings in ICOM Remote Utility
Mic Settings in ICOM Remote Utility

Update 13.06.2023

During recent operations using a VirtualBox Windows machine to run RS-BA1 software it happend that the TX audio from voice memories was heard on speakers of the host machine instead of being sent to the radio and transmitted on the air. Debugging showed that the setting “Audio Device (Voice Memory) obviously lost its setting as was simply empty. Re-selecting “ICOM VAUDIO-1 (Icom Virtual Audio)” solved the problem immediately. To change this setting the RS-BA1 control has to be disconnected and re-connected after changing this setting.

Audio Device Settings in RS-BA1
Audio Device Settings in RS-BA1