diff --git a/app.go b/app.go
index 0182e6e..a609344 100644
--- a/app.go
+++ b/app.go
@@ -8440,7 +8440,7 @@ func (a *App) ListAudioInputDevices() ([]audio.Device, error) {
 		return devs, err
 	}
 	if a.tciAudioAvailable() {
-		devs = append([]audio.Device{{ID: audio.NetworkDeviceID, Name: "Radio (TCI network audio)"}}, devs...)
+		devs = append([]audio.Device{{ID: audio.NetworkDeviceID, Name: "Radio (network audio)"}}, devs...)
 	}
 	return devs, nil
 }
@@ -8467,7 +8467,7 @@ func (a *App) ListAudioOutputDevices() ([]audio.Device, error) {
 		return devs, err
 	}
 	if audio.NetworkPlayerReady() {
-		devs = append([]audio.Device{{ID: audio.NetworkDeviceID, Name: "Radio (TCI network audio)"}}, devs...)
+		devs = append([]audio.Device{{ID: audio.NetworkDeviceID, Name: "Radio (network audio)"}}, devs...)
 	}
 	return devs, nil
 }
@@ -15625,6 +15625,9 @@ func (a *App) reloadCAT() {
 			}
 		}
 		a.cat.Start(cat.NewIcomNet(s.IcomNetHost, s.IcomNetUser, s.IcomNetPass, s.IcomAddr, s.DigitalDefault, audioSink))
+		// With the audio session open the radio can also TAKE audio: offer it to
+		// the voice keyer, the way a TCI radio is offered.
+		a.installIcomTXPlayer(audioSink != nil)
 	case "tci":
 		// Expert Electronics TCI (WebSocket) — SunSDR / ExpertSDR2, or any
 		// TCI-compatible server. The receive audio rides the same socket, so
diff --git a/app_icom_dvk.go b/app_icom_dvk.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a01d5ab
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app_icom_dvk.go
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+package main
+
+// The voice keyer, through an Icom's network link — the Icom face of what
+// app_tci_dvk.go does for a SunSDR: selecting the radio as the "To radio"
+// output hands messages to the 50003 audio session instead of a sound card.
+// The same PTT before and after, the same gain, the same files.
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	"hamlog/internal/applog"
+	"hamlog/internal/audio"
+	"hamlog/internal/cat"
+)
+
+// icomTXPlayer hands one message to the radio. Fetched on the CAT goroutine,
+// played off it — a ten-second message must not freeze frequency, mode and
+// PTT handling for ten seconds (see tciTXPlayer, which set the pattern).
+func (a *App) icomTXPlayer(pcm []byte, rate, ch, bits int, stop <-chan struct{}) error {
+	if a.cat == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("CAT not initialized")
+	}
+	type txPlayer interface {
+		PlayTXAudio(pcm []byte, rate, ch, bits int, stop <-chan struct{}) error
+	}
+	var player txPlayer
+	err := a.cat.IcomDo(func(ic cat.IcomController) error {
+		p, ok := ic.(txPlayer)
+		if !ok {
+			return fmt.Errorf("this radio cannot take transmit audio over its CAT link")
+		}
+		player = p
+		return nil
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return player.PlayTXAudio(pcm, rate, ch, bits, stop)
+}
+
+// installIcomTXPlayer offers the network Icom as an audio output, or withdraws
+// it. Withdrawing matters as much as offering — see installTCITXPlayer.
+func (a *App) installIcomTXPlayer(on bool) {
+	if !on {
+		return // the reloadCAT preamble already cleared the network player
+	}
+	audio.SetNetworkPlayer(a.icomTXPlayer)
+	applog.Printf("icom net: the radio is available as an audio output — the voice keyer can play to it without a cable")
+}
diff --git a/changelog.json b/changelog.json
index 44530d1..f1a641c 100644
--- a/changelog.json
+++ b/changelog.json
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
       "Icom network audio: duplicate and late-retransmitted packets no longer reach the recorder — recordings came out longer than the QSO, slowed and stuttering, while the speakers played fine.",
       "Icom network audio: it now starts with the app — launching OpsLog connected with audio silently off, and the option had to be unticked and re-saved to hear anything.",
       "Icom network: when the rig goes quiet on CI-V while the session stays up (seen on the IC-7760), the CI-V flow is re-opened on the spot — recovery in seconds instead of the 35-second full reconnect.",
-      "Icom network: after a session dies young, the redial waits 20 s so the rig can purge the old session first — stops the reconnect-die-reconnect spiral seen on the IC-7760, where each fresh session answered for a second and was then strangled by the previous one’s cleanup."
+      "Icom network: after a session dies young, the redial waits 20 s so the rig can purge the old session first — stops the reconnect-die-reconnect spiral seen on the IC-7760, where each fresh session answered for a second and was then strangled by the previous one’s cleanup.",
+      "Icom network audio, phase 5: the radio can now TAKE audio — with RX audio enabled, pick “Radio (network audio)” as the To-radio device and the voice keyer plays straight to the rig over the LAN, no cable, no virtual sound card. First tested on the IC-7760."
     ],
     "fr": [
       "Console Elecraft : le S-mètre est calibré sur un vrai K3 — S9 et les +dB correspondent désormais à l’affichage de la radio (il lisait environ deux points S trop bas).",
@@ -40,7 +41,8 @@
       "Audio réseau Icom : les paquets dupliqués ou retransmis en retard n’atteignent plus l’enregistreur — les enregistrements sortaient plus longs que le QSO, ralentis et hachés, alors que les haut-parleurs jouaient bien.",
       "Audio réseau Icom : il démarre maintenant avec l’application — au lancement, la connexion se faisait audio coupé, et il fallait décocher/recocher l’option pour entendre quelque chose.",
       "Réseau Icom : quand la radio se tait sur le CI-V alors que la session tient (constaté sur l’IC-7760), le flux CI-V est rouvert immédiatement — récupération en quelques secondes au lieu des 35 secondes de reconnexion complète.",
-      "Réseau Icom : après une session morte jeune, la renumérotation attend 20 s pour que la radio purge d’abord l’ancienne session — stoppe la spirale reconnexion-mort-reconnexion vue sur l’IC-7760, où chaque session neuve répondait une seconde avant d’être étranglée par le nettoyage de la précédente."
+      "Réseau Icom : après une session morte jeune, la renumérotation attend 20 s pour que la radio purge d’abord l’ancienne session — stoppe la spirale reconnexion-mort-reconnexion vue sur l’IC-7760, où chaque session neuve répondait une seconde avant d’être étranglée par le nettoyage de la précédente.",
+      "Audio réseau Icom, phase 5 : la radio peut maintenant RECEVOIR de l’audio — avec le RX audio activé, choisissez « Radio (network audio) » comme périphérique To Radio et le voice keyer joue directement vers la radio par le LAN, sans câble ni carte son virtuelle. Premier test sur l’IC-7760."
     ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/internal/audio/network.go b/internal/audio/network.go
index d1a9c7d..b9d7143 100644
--- a/internal/audio/network.go
+++ b/internal/audio/network.go
@@ -64,4 +64,4 @@ func NetworkPlayerReady() bool { return networkPlayer() != nil }
 // comes back with. Named, because "the device could not be opened" would send
 // an operator hunting through Windows sound settings for a device that never
 // existed.
-var errNoNetworkRadio = errors.New("no radio is connected to take the audio — check the CAT link (the radio output only works with a TCI radio)")
+var errNoNetworkRadio = errors.New("no radio is connected to take the audio — check the CAT link (a TCI radio, or a network Icom with RX audio enabled)")
diff --git a/internal/cat/icomaudio.go b/internal/cat/icomaudio.go
index 4a7a713..2298e85 100644
--- a/internal/cat/icomaudio.go
+++ b/internal/cat/icomaudio.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ package cat
 // audio stream is opt-in and entirely separate from control/CI-V.
 
 import (
+	"fmt"
 	"net"
 	"sync"
 	"sync/atomic"
@@ -236,3 +237,58 @@ func (a *icomAudio) sendRetransmitReq() {
 		_, _ = a.conn.Write(b)
 	}
 }
+
+// PlayTX sends one already-decoded message out over the audio session, paced
+// at the stream's own 20 ms / 320-sample cadence, and returns when the last
+// packet has gone or stop is closed.
+//
+// The frame mirrors what the rig itself sends on this socket byte for byte —
+// ident 0x81 0x01 (LPCM mono 16-bit), a big-endian send sequence at 0x12, the
+// payload length at 0x14, PCM from 0x18 — with the IDs swapped for direction.
+// PTT is the caller's business, exactly as on the TCI and sound-card paths.
+func (a *icomAudio) PlayTX(pcm []byte, rate, ch, bits int, stop <-chan struct{}) error {
+	mono := decodeToMono(pcm, ch, bits)
+	if len(mono) == 0 {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the message is empty")
+	}
+	if rate > 0 && rate != 16000 {
+		mono = resampleLinear(mono, rate, 16000)
+	}
+	const frame = 320 // samples per packet: 20 ms at 16 kHz, the rig's own cadence
+	tick := time.NewTicker(20 * time.Millisecond)
+	defer tick.Stop()
+	var outerSeq uint16 = 1
+	var sendSeq uint16
+	for pos := 0; pos < len(mono); pos += frame {
+		select {
+		case <-stop:
+			return nil
+		case <-a.done:
+			return fmt.Errorf("the audio stream closed mid-message")
+		case <-tick.C:
+		}
+		pkt := make([]byte, 0x18+frame*2)
+		icnLE.PutUint32(pkt[0:], uint32(len(pkt)))
+		icnLE.PutUint16(pkt[6:], outerSeq)
+		icnLE.PutUint32(pkt[8:], a.aID)
+		icnLE.PutUint32(pkt[12:], a.aRemote)
+		pkt[0x10], pkt[0x11] = 0x81, 0x01
+		icnBE.PutUint16(pkt[0x12:], sendSeq)
+		icnBE.PutUint32(pkt[0x14:], frame*2)
+		for i := 0; i < frame && pos+i < len(mono); i++ {
+			v := mono[pos+i] * 32767
+			if v > 32767 {
+				v = 32767
+			} else if v < -32768 {
+				v = -32768
+			}
+			icnLE.PutUint16(pkt[0x18+i*2:], uint16(int16(v)))
+		}
+		if _, err := a.conn.Write(pkt); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("sending audio to the rig: %w", err)
+		}
+		outerSeq++
+		sendSeq++
+	}
+	return nil
+}
diff --git a/internal/cat/icomnet.go b/internal/cat/icomnet.go
index 90f6499..539e72d 100644
--- a/internal/cat/icomnet.go
+++ b/internal/cat/icomnet.go
@@ -940,7 +940,11 @@ func icnConnInfo(seq, innerSeq, tokReq uint16, sentid, rcvdid, token uint32, use
 	copy(b[0x40:0x60], []byte("IC-7610"))
 	copy(b[0x60:0x70], icnPasscode(user))
 	b[0x70] = rxEnable // rxenable: 1 opens the 50003 RX audio stream, 0 = CI-V only
-	b[0x71] = 0x00     // txenable (Phase 5)
+	// TX rides the same audio session: whenever the operator wants RX audio the
+	// TX side is opened with it, so the voice keyer can play to the radio with
+	// no cable. Costs nothing when unused — no packets flow until a message is
+	// actually played.
+	b[0x71] = rxEnable // txenable
 	// rxcodec 0x04 = LPCM, ONE channel, 16-BIT — settled by experiment on a
 	// real IC-7760, one wrong guess at a time: 0x10 produced 1280-byte payloads
 	// of interleaved 16-bit stereo, 0x02 produced 320-byte payloads of 8-bit
@@ -949,7 +953,7 @@ func icnConnInfo(seq, innerSeq, tokReq uint16, sentid, rcvdid, token uint32, use
 	b[0x72] = 0x04 // rxcodec
 	b[0x73] = 0x04 // txcodec
 	icnBE.PutUint32(b[0x74:], 16000)
-	icnBE.PutUint32(b[0x78:], 8000)
+	icnBE.PutUint32(b[0x78:], 16000) // TX sample rate — the same 16 kHz everything else here runs at
 	icnBE.PutUint32(b[0x7c:], uint32(civPort))
 	icnBE.PutUint32(b[0x80:], uint32(audioPort))
 	icnBE.PutUint32(b[0x84:], 100)
@@ -957,6 +961,17 @@ func icnConnInfo(seq, innerSeq, tokReq uint16, sentid, rcvdid, token uint32, use
 	return b
 }
 
+// PlayTXAudio plays one voice-keyer message through the 50003 audio session.
+// On the transport because the transport owns the session; the IcomSerial
+// controller forwards here after a type assertion, exactly as the TCI path
+// reaches its radio.
+func (n *icomNet) PlayTXAudio(pcm []byte, rate, ch, bits int, stop <-chan struct{}) error {
+	if n.audio == nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("the radio's audio stream is not open — enable RX audio in Settings → CAT first")
+	}
+	return n.audio.PlayTX(pcm, rate, ch, bits, stop)
+}
+
 func icnOpenClose(seq uint16, sentid, rcvdid uint32, civSeq uint16, magic byte) []byte {
 	b := make([]byte, 0x16)
 	icnLE.PutUint32(b[0:], 0x16)
diff --git a/internal/cat/icomserial.go b/internal/cat/icomserial.go
index 5b4fc3a..704cda2 100644
--- a/internal/cat/icomserial.go
+++ b/internal/cat/icomserial.go
@@ -2047,3 +2047,20 @@ func agcValue(name string) byte {
 	}
 	return 0
 }
+
+// PlayTXAudio hands a voice-keyer message to the network audio session, when
+// this rig is reached over one. A USB-connected Icom takes its audio through
+// its own sound card instead, and says so.
+func (b *IcomSerial) PlayTXAudio(pcm []byte, rate, ch, bits int, stop <-chan struct{}) error {
+	// port is written once per Connect, on the CAT goroutine this is fetched
+	// from (IcomDo); at worst a reconnect leaves this one connection stale, and
+	// a stale transport fails fast on its closed done channel.
+	port := b.port
+	type txPlayer interface {
+		PlayTXAudio(pcm []byte, rate, ch, bits int, stop <-chan struct{}) error
+	}
+	if p, ok := port.(txPlayer); ok {
+		return p.PlayTXAudio(pcm, rate, ch, bits, stop)
+	}
+	return fmt.Errorf("this rig takes transmit audio through its USB sound card, not the CAT link")
+}