Re: [amsat-bb] In-band Doppler correction

[Anthony Monteiro <aa2tx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,

Good memory! That is it - 10KHz increments :(
This is too big of a step to be useful.

Although the CAT command looks like it could
handle finer increments, the radio ignores it.

73,
Tony AA2TX
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At 02:09 PM 1/12/2004 -0800, Wayne Estes W9AE wrote:

>Anthony Monteiro wrote:
>
>I recall working on this on the FT-847 using the repeater offset to
>control it and I ran into some strange problem (the radio ignores
>the CAT commands sometimes???) so it will not work on an FT-847.
>
>Wayne replies:
>
>The problem with the FT-847 is that the CAT interface only allows the 
>repeater offset to be programmed in large increments (10 kHz, I 
>think).   Far too coarse for Doppler tuning.  I learned this while testing 
>DK1TB's attempt to get ISS Doppler tuning to work on my FT-847.
>
>Wayne Estes
>Mundelein, IL, USA
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