Matt, I am also using the SDRPlay for downlink along with a FT-817ND. It works great and seeing the downlink signals makes it very nice. I also find it easy to maintain a centered freq. when you can see your own signal coming down if you run two antennas. The only issues I have noticed are, one sunny days make it difficult to see the laptop screen, and two running a radio, computer and tracking with an Arrow antenna on a tripod take a little to get used to. I really like seeing the signals, tracking satellites with the SDR Console software, and being able to record the qso's right in SDR Console. Great stuff!
N3YUG Jason
On 06-08-2016 11:32 AM, Matt Patterson wrote:
Hi All,
I've recently become interested again in working some of the satellites that are still operational. Back when I was active 4-5 years ago I was working FM only and now want to get back into it and try FO-29 and AO-7 as well. I purchased a SDRPlay with the hopes of using it as the downlink receive and already have a Yaesu FT-857 (that I'll set to low power) or a cheap Chinese HT as my uplink depending on the satellite. Are there any others out there who use the SDRPlay for this purpose? I know Patrick (WD9EWK) has used one before and I have been corresponding with him via e-mail but was just curious if there were any others out there that do as well.
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