[amsat-bb] Re: thought for a neat product, anyone seen one?

[Anthony Monteiro <aa2tx@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:14 PM 11/23/2008, Eric Fort wrote:
>I just thought of kind of a neat product for those of us that work sats.
>Has anyone seen anything similar?  I have an ft-817 which has a cat
>interface and will operate both ssb and fm.  Has anyone seen a little box
>that would adjust the radio frequency for both uplink and downlink while
>displaying azmuth and elevation data?  It seems that it would be handy to
>have the frequency control take care of itself while providing data as to
>where I should point the arrow.  What do those reading this idea think of
>it?  It would seem to me to be quite useful especially for ssb.
>
>Eric
>AF6EP

Hi Eric,

InstantTrack with InstantTune V1.50 running on any laptop with
a serial port.

73,
Tony AA2TX


   

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