Not sure what these generic statements are based on:
*...."but ICOM and some other radios do not really fully support it and sometimes the tx frequency ends up being written to the RX."... *
..."The ISS version has some quirks particularly if you are only using one radio, as many radios work a bit weird when sending remote frequencies for same band split."
Using *one* Icom radio (IC-9100) in *split mode* with SatPC32 ISS works just beautiful. Never had problems with doppler control and direct contact with the ISS (school and astronauts) during many contacts and APRS (when it was operational!).
Stefan, VE4NSA
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 9:01 PM Daniel Cussen dan@post.com wrote:
I used satpc32iss and it worked very similarly to the non ISS version. From what I remember it uses all the settings from the non iss version. As far as I remember the main difference is that it allows the two radios or one radio to be on the same band for transmit and receive, so it may be that the radio is set up for the same serial port as the rotator. The ISS version has some quirks particularly if you are only using one radio, as many radios work a bit weird when sending remote frequencies for same band split. Basically you are sending two frequencies to the one radio, but ICOM and some other radios do not really fully support it and sometimes the tx frequency ends up being written to the RX. Either way if using it for an ISS school contact test the hell out of the radio and rotator set up all combined. In the end I disconnected the radio Doppler correction (it is not really needed on vhf) and had satpc32 for rotator control only.
I had to disconnect the radio Doppler while talking to an astronaut live in front of a school hall full of kids. I worked fine during the tests! On 10 Jun 2018 19:16, "Stephan Greene" ks1g04@gmail.com wrote:
Long-time SatPC32 user but new to SatPC32ISS. Rig control works fine,
but
I can't get rotor control working in SatPC32ISS. Guessing that
SatPC32ISS
is not launching the rotor control server SatPC32 uses. Suggestions?
Does
SatPC32ISS default to the same config file as SatPC32, or does it default to Confguration 1? (I'm using Config II with SatPC32). Have not found anything (yet) in the SatPC32 docs.
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