Clayton,
Thanks for the "Heads-Up" worked perfect. A couple of taps on the "-" key and SatPC32 tracked the satellite perfect. Had a QSO with Glenn. Nice sounding transponder.
KO6TZ Bob
I should have been a little more clear in my email earlier. The transponder on LilacSat-2 active today was not the normal FM one but rather a SSB transponder. It is experimental and has no AGC according to the reports from Twitter. I'd suggest paying attention to the AMSAT OSCAR status page (http://www.amsat.org/status) and following BG2BHC on Twitter for operational updates.
I was using manual control but you can add this line to your DOPPLER.SQF. It will need some minor calibration:
LILACSAT-2,437200.0,144362.0,USB,USB,NOR,0,0,SSB Transponder
73 Clayton W5PFG
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 9:26 AM, Clayton Coleman <kayakfishtx at gmail.com> wrote:
This morning, Glenn AA5PK, and I had a QSO via the experimental transponder activated on LilacSat-2. It was very interesting and fun. A non-inverting mode J transponder was new to me.
Using manual tuning to adjust for Doppler shift proved to be a small challenge as I am more accustomed to operating on a transponder like FO-29. Running SDR in parallel to my Icom IC-9100 gave me a good visual representation of the transponder pass band.
You can listen to a brief clip of our QSO here: