It appears the signal is making it to the Dashboard but nothing seems to happen.
Hi Tom -- just checking real quick, from your pic, it shows that the actual data stream from the sat is being picked up in the FCD dashboard, but the signals are right up against the zero line on the left, and looks like some of the signal might have been clipped off to the left. To confirm, you also tried with the main signal somewhere in the middle of the FCD Dashboard's "passband"?
(sorry, I run my FCDPP direct to the FCD Dashboard, so I'm just used to seeing the sat signal display around 55,000 on a scale of 0-96,000 Hz, so not entirely familiar with running the sigs through HDSDR recording first)
73! Dave KB5WIA
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Thomas Doyle tomdoyle1948@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Recorded an AO-73 telemetry pass (RF recording) this morning with HDSDR. Later fed it from HDSDR into the sound card and then to the FCD Dashboard (see pic). It appears the signal is making it to the Dashboard but nothing seems to happen. I tired (Auto Tune) on/off, and narrowing the bandwidth of the HDSDR filter to better match the bw of the signal but still nothing. It does seem to lock on to the (Detected Frequency 2262 Hz) but that's about all it does. The Dashboard is brilliant and I would like to get it working.
Due to deed restrictions no outside antennas are allowed so the signal is not that strong here (about 5dB above the noise) and it might never work from here. Any suggestions will be appreciated. Any suggestions that we move to a new neighborhood that allows outside antennas will be forwarded to my wife :-)
http://www.tomdoyle.org/dashboard1sm.png
Tnx W9KE Tom Doyle _______________________________________________ Sent via AMSAT-BB@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb