Shouldn't be too much challenge, just use it manually without PC control and its straightforward.
AO-73 is much for fun when twiddling both the vfos by hand.
Peter, 2M0SQL
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 20:13, Albert Ozias via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Thank you for the explanation. I do enjoy the bird but it is a challenge which seems to limits the number of operators using it.
From: Graham Shirville graham@shirville.com Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2020 11:58 AM To: Albert Ozias alozias@live.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO-73 Frequency Shifts
Hi Albert,
Not really a design flaw but more a design feature.
Basically, the designers were being shouted at to "keep the power consumption to a minimum" by the power budget supremo...when the oscillator circuits were designed, way back, low power equated to poor thermal drift performance...now we have better technology but back then it was a reasonable trade off.
Coming up next month, AO73-FUNcube-1 will be back in full sunlight so the onboard temperatures will stabilise again.
I hope you can still enjoy using the transponder!
73
Graham G3VZV for the FUNcube team.....
On 30/07/2020 17:17, Albert Ozias via AMSAT-BB wrote:
Why is AO-73 frequency more effected by time in sunlight than other birds? Is this a design flaw or a component failure? _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. AMSAT-NA makes this open forum available to all interested persons worldwide without requiring membership. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author, and do not reflect the official views of AMSAT-NA. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: https://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
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