
HRD does give me a live TX button but when I activate it nothing seems to be going out the radio and tuner. or, am I way off base with that thinking? It would seem then that I could set this interface to make the 857D route around the radio's mic and instead see audio from my sound card as the transmit audio. It's supposed to let me run PSK31 but it appears I might also use it thru the 857D and HRD to transmit phone as the label on the interface states "sound card interface for PC generated PSK31 and RTTY modes. To continue, I bought a serial/usb sound card interface some months ago from a ham radio store that has the two 1/8" jacks on the end (one is labeled "mic input", the other is "speaker out").

However, I want to go the next step and transmit remotely with a standard PC headset on my laptop and that's where I'm totally lost. It works great if all I want to do is monitor. I can remote control my FT857D with Ham Radio Deluxe for the control, for the PC to PC connection and Skype for the audio.
