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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/DQPUNLBEQZDXPSLNQBGIHJ4MCGMOCGJ4/?format=api", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/?format=api", "message_id": "[email protected]", "message_id_hash": "DQPUNLBEQZDXPSLNQBGIHJ4MCGMOCGJ4", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/3AQIJLTKZBYDUCDH337SPKKRV3ZV6NKC/?format=api", "sender": { "address": "david (a) rushtone.com", "mailman_id": "7a8523604ccc4876b2c68bdf8e304dbb", "emails": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/sender/7a8523604ccc4876b2c68bdf8e304dbb/emails/?format=api" }, "sender_name": "David Rush", "subject": "Re: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 Doppler Correction/Calibration?", "date": "2017-06-22T12:02:44Z", "parent": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/DNGDSRII7AS2KCMRFMWLLECGDIUK7OT5/?format=api", "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/FAQSVXIF2EUVWB2RVSX5YL3AQNRGQBMF/?format=api" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "George:\n\nOkay, I'll give that a shot this evening. Thanks.\n\nDavid, ky7dr\n\n\nOn /20170622/ 00:10, George Henry wrote:\n> Go into your Doppler.sqf file and edit the up- and downlink \n> frequencies back to the original values. Then use the uplink \n> calibration buttons to find yourself on the downlink. Then click the \n> Change/Store data file button and store the uplink calibration. I've \n> never touched the downlink correction on a sat with a linear \n> transponder...\n>\n> George, KA3HSW\n>\n>\n> ----- Original Message ----- From: \"David Rush\" <[email protected]>\n> To: <[email protected]>\n> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 7:53 PM\n> Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 Doppler Correction/Calibration?\n>\n>\n>> Okay, I followed the instructions (as I described below). I found \n>> myself on a couple of the XW-2* birds, and kept adjusting my downlink \n>> correction until I was at about peak elevation in the pass (I even \n>> made one contact while one of the birds was still on its way up). \n>> Then zeroed out the downlink correction and entered the opposite in \n>> uplink correction, and saved it.\n>>\n>> Once I did that I did not hear myself on the downlink, and failed to \n>> find myself, even trying a few 10s of hz of d/l correction either \n>> side, before the birds got too low on the horizon.\n>>\n>> What am I doing wrong?\n>>\n>> David, ky7dr\n>>\n>>\n>> On /20170621/ 07:44, David Rush wrote:\n>>> George:\n>>>\n>>> Thanks for the reply. So by repeatedly trying the same thing, have \n>>> I shifted the uplink frequency by a bit more every time? Sounds like \n>>> I may need to set those back. Or else just find a new value in the \n>>> opposite direction (starting a few multiples of the 160), set it \n>>> once, and leave it.\n>>>\n>>> 73, David, KY7DR\n>>>\n>>>\n>>> On /20170621/ 00:55, George Henry wrote:\n>>>> You're doing it right... once you store the uplink calibration, \n>>>> the calibration values WILL return to zero, but if you look at the \n>>>> uplink frequency displayed in the right-hand panel of the CAT \n>>>> window, it will have a new value which is offset from the original \n>>>> frequency by whatever calibration value you stored.\n>>>>\n>>>> 73,\n>>>> George, KA3HSW\n>>>>\n>>>>\n>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: \"David Rush\" <[email protected]>\n>>>> To: \"Amsat BB\" <[email protected]>\n>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 7:59 PM\n>>>> Subject: [amsat-bb] SatPC32 Doppler Correction/Calibration?\n>>>>\n>>>>\n>>>>> I'm trying to get the doppler correction/calibration set up for \n>>>>> the various birds before Field Day, but I'm just not making any \n>>>>> tangible progress.\n>>>>>\n>>>>> I've got a pair of Yaesu FT-817ND rigs, and can successfully tune \n>>>>> both of them with SatPC32's CAT controls.\n>>>>>\n>>>>> Following the directions for a two-rig calibration process, I've \n>>>>> been catching the XW-2* birds and can occasionally get the \n>>>>> downlink correction set to where I can hear myself on the downlink.\n>>>>>\n>>>>> In a couple of cases I've made note of where that downlink \n>>>>> calibration was near mid-pass (the necessary correction changed \n>>>>> constantly across the pass).\n>>>>>\n>>>>> Then I go into the CAT menu, set the downlink correction to zero \n>>>>> and the uplink calibration to the opposite sign of the previously \n>>>>> found downlink correction at mid-pass.\n>>>>>\n>>>>> For example on a recent pass of XW-2C I found a downlink \n>>>>> correction of -160 Hz was working well near mid-pass (I could hear \n>>>>> myself) so I set the uplink calibration to 160 Hz.\n>>>>>\n>>>>> The \"Upl. Calibr.\" window in the CAT pop-up says \"160\", and the \n>>>>> grey box above the uplink frequency in the main window also says \n>>>>> \"160\".\n>>>>>\n>>>>> I click on the \"Change/Store Dataf File\" button, then click on the \n>>>>> \"Store\" \"Uplink Calibration\" button on the next pop-up.\n>>>>>\n>>>>> It says \"The changings have been stored!\" but the uplink \n>>>>> calibration in both the first popup and the main window are back \n>>>>> to zero.\n>>>>>\n>>>>> I click the X to close both pop-ups, and uplink correction in the \n>>>>> main window is still 0. I exit the program, restart it, select \n>>>>> XW-2C, enable CAT (C+) and the uplink calibration is still on zero.\n>>>>>\n>>>>> What am I missing?\n>>>>>\n>>>>> David, ky7dr\n>>>>>\n>>>>> _______________________________________________\n>>>>> Sent via [email protected]. 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