DX6 struggles! Not even a signal!

[babydoc]

Hello all... hope I can get somewhere.... am throwing up my hands.

I have FMS8.5 and SPPlus installed, they run fine (except throttle is full on for some reason). I have a mono 1/8" cable connecting my new Spektrum dx6 tx to the soundcard. I get erratic if any signal from the tx.

-tried the PPM utility, sometimes blue, sometimes red, never any red signal lines
-Winscope utility doesnt show anything
-when I start FMS, microphone level gets set back to zero (it should be 2/3 up I read somewhere?). I get this with sndvol32 -r from the "run..." command window, as described here.

What the heck do I try next?? I tried searching here, but nothing to address this directly. Do I need to giveup and buy the hitech USB cable some talk about? I'm not sure if this will change anything.

Thanks for any help.

Ben

[shaul_eiz]

You seem not to receive a signal at your PC.
This may be because your hardware is malfunctioning (Cable or sound card) or that you have not selected the correct audio source using sndvol32.
Please note that SmartPropoPlus neutralizes the effects of sndvol32 so make sure that SmartPropoPlus is not working while you make these tests.