RE: [amsat-bb] working AO-7 and FO-29 with a FT-817

["James C. Hall, M.D." <heartdoc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there:

Good thread. I'll be looking into this myself with a Field Day setup with a
IC-706Mk2G. I would think that half the battle here would be finding your
own signal when half duplex.

73, Jamie
WB4YDL

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From: owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org [mailto:owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org]On
Behalf Of Wayne Estes W9AE
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:23 AM
To: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] working AO-7 and FO-29 with a FT-817


A couple of minor corrections/clarifications:

1. The TX VFO tracking with SatPC32 also has a delay of about 1 second when
used with a half-duplex radio such as FT-817.  I can't see that with my
FT-847 because I enable the built-in VFO tracking.  The auto Doppler tuning
function of SatPC32 allows me to enable the radio's VFO tracking.
InstantTune requires you do disable VFO tracking.  But this is not a concern
when using InstantTune with half-duplex radios such as FT-817 or FT-100
(they don't have tracking VFOs).

2. The author of InstantTrack also donated the software to AMSAT.  So the
purchase price of either InstantTrack or SatPC32 is a donation to AMSAT.

Wayne Estes W9AE
Mundelein, IL, USA
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