[Discuss-gnuradio] ICOM 706 MKIIG as input to GNURadio

[Brad Hein]

I'm looking for a way to tap into the unmodulated signal in my ICOM 706 MKIIG (I don't have a SDR BUT I do have a sound card, and lots of ham equipment :) ). 

Referring to the product service manual[1], I have found the "product detector" signal before it reaches the AF stages. 

Also it appears (hoping I'm wrong) that the second IF runs at about 9Mhz. So does that mean that I need to down-convert the signal from 9Mhz, to something the soundcard can handle?

Or is there a better place to tap the IQ signal coming from the VDO...?

Anybody else had any success in tapping the IQ in a receiver and feeding that into GNURadio? 
 

73
K1GTO
BH


References
[1] http://www.rigpix.com/icom/ic706mkiig.htm