Putting the rig in FM-Narrow helps with the birdie, and you can vary the IF shift somewhat to help a little. The NOTCH and Beat Cancel (another notch filter) don't seem to do much with it. Only the manual Beat Cancel works in FM, I think. A mast mounted preamp can put the downlink signal above the birdie as well. At the beginning and end of a pass the downlink is away from the birdie as well.
John AF5CC
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 5:59 PM, John Brier johnbrier@gmail.com wrote:
So are the SO-50 birdie workarounds in the radio or like what Craig said below, a jumper to another radio?
I was thinking, wouldn't shifting the IF/BFO or something like that move the birdie somewhere else?
73,
John KG4AKV
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Glasbrenner glasbrenner@mindspring.com wrote:
The TS-2000 by a mile, which is indeed full duplex. The only issue is
the birdie on SO-50's downlink, and there are workarounds for that.
73, Drew KO4MA
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From: Christopher Maness christopher.maness@gmail.com Sent: May 12, 2016 9:54 AM To: Tony Langdon vk3jed@gmail.com Cc: "amsat-bb@amsat.org" amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] FT-736R vs. TS-2000X
Let me restate the question in a different way. Say you had both
radios, and your wife walks into your shack and says you don’t need two satellite radios. Shaking her finger, she says you need to sell one. Which one would go?
(My wife knows nothing about these radios — the fiction is for effect :D
)
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