Hello Adrian,
ompletely agree about the rovers and I had excluded manual tuning operators like rovers in my question. I have worked a few and do my best to keep up manually. However the main focus of my post was to understand the drift when both stations were automated.
73! Umesh k6vug On Wednesday, February 6, 2019, 12:00:42 PM PST, Adrian Engele aa5uk@yahoo.com wrote:
Umesh, One other thing to consider that I have not heard anybody mention so far, most rovers will be using either a fixed uplink or a fix downlink depending on the satellite and correct for the higher frequency manually per the "One True Rule". Many rovers pre-announce their frequencies. In SatPC you can go to the Mode menu and set which frequency you want Doppler corrected the uplink or the downlink only, instead of both.
As a roving operator there is often a challenge. I typically announce my fixed frequency via Twitter or AMSAT BB and find myself chasing operators who are running full doppler correction during TCA. Then I have to fiddle to get back on frequency. Just something to think about to make life easier for the rovers working the pile ups while minimizing the need to retune and maintain a high response rate.
As was previously mentioned use the RIT too.
73, Adrian AA5UK >> VP5/AA5UK Feb 28-March 8
On Wednesday, February 6, 2019, 11:43:44 AM CST, k6vug@sbcglobal.net k6vug@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Good Morning All, I'd like to understand something that seems to be happening with SSB birds.
I realize that they are two kinds of operators - one that has a computer controlled station and one that tunes manually, and I respect both types. The following observation is about two computer controlled stations working via a SSB satellite - (a) My station is computer controlled (SatPC32 or HRD) and can hear myself on the downlink throughout the pass. I can also go up or down the pass band and still hear myself without needing to retune the uplink. It is pretty rock solid, almost like HF operation. (b) Sometimes I hear a station calling CQ and it remains on the same frequency during successive CQs, so I'm guessing their station is also computer controlled. I can tune in and stay on their calling frequency. (c) However, when I can respond, it seems they have to tune their downlink a bit to hear me well. So when they come back to my response, they are a bit off-frequency (about 300Hz) and sound like Mickey Mouse, until I retune the downlink to hear them well again. This keeps happening throughout the QSO. (d) This "drifting" happens only with some stations calling CQ and not everyone. Considering both stations are computer controlled at each end, I'm trying to understand if I'm doing anything wrong/incorrect. Learning to operate SSB sats has been humbling as well as exciting, I'd appreciate any pointers for this situation. Thanks in advance. 73! Umesh k6vug
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