Hi Don!
The web page Andrew KE8FZT is a great resource for setting up a D72 for FalconSat-3's digipeater. I referenced his site in my AMSAT Journal article, as he had the same settings I used when I got started with this satellite - and he already had screenshots from the radio. Why reinvent the proverbial wheel? :-)
The easiest way to set up a D72 for FalconSat-3's digipeater is probably with the Kenwood MCP-4A software and COM port driver on a Windows PC. Then you aren't having to go through the menus on a small screen, and you don't have to enter messages and text like you would enter an SMS message on a flip-phone (multiple presses of a key to get a particular character). All of this *can* be done with the D72's front panel, but there is a better way through the software.
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Don KB2YSI [email protected] wrote:
As an FYI /additional resource: https://andrewbnortham.com/ke8fzt/falconsat/
I do not know how it rates with the others, but figured I'd share.
73, Don KB2YSI
On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, 23:25 [email protected] wrote:
I am confused, which is not an uncommon thing. I have been wanting to
try
and figure out how to work Falxonsat-3 via my Kenwood D72a. I read Pat Stoddard's AMSAT Journal article but he does not do a step by step per
se.
I also read KB6IGK and WD9EWKs other article on the same subject.
Mention
is made on setting "User phrases". Looking at several different D72 manuals, I cannot for the life of me, see how one selects the phrase to use and
how
that gets into the string that is sent. I see the ability to set several phrases from inside RT systems D72 menu program (Not sure how those get entered in manual radio programming), nor do I see any instructions for sending). I watched a YouTube video of a guy making Falconst APRS contacts, but no explanation on how he got the phrases out.
Wisdom please,
73 and thanks for the patient mentoring.
Tom Schuessler, N5HYP EM12ms
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