Ahhhh, I see I miss-typed. I was actually on LSB for the VHF side and USB on the UHF side. I will probably get a billion responses on the previous email. Ha.
Michael Vivona Sent from my iPad
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From: Mvivona via AMSAT-BB [email protected] Date: June 25, 2015 at 5:29:45 PM EDT To: "[email protected]" [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] My first attempt on a linear bird Reply-To: Mvivona [email protected]
OK, I just tried my first attempt on FO-29. I have done SO-50 FM with great success, but now it's on to the scary SSB bird. I was setup with dual IC7000, one for TX (VHF/LSB) and one for RX (UHF/LSB). The RX rig was being controlled by computer. During the pass I could hear someone calling. I adjusted the frequency just a little and he sounded nice a clear. I moved a little away from his freq and began to transmit to see if I could hear my return. Immediately heard my return, but no matter what I did could not get it to sound clear. It was real high pitched sounding. If I dialed it down it would start to get close to the right pitch, but then get so weak that I couldn't hear it. I was dialing my TX rig. Any thoughts?
Michael Vivona Sent from my iPad
On Jun 25, 2015, at 9:55 AM, David [email protected] wrote:
I'll throw in 2 cents of my own based on my experiences as a newbie to the whole SAT communication world, I'm no expert.
First I started with an HT and an Arrow antenna just wanting to listen... naturally after a few short successful passes where I heard conversations I was hooked.
I already had HRD (latest version) that I used with my TS-590 so the SAT portion of it was a shoe in for me I thought. So I did my research and stepped up and bought a shiny new IC-9100. So here is where it all starts.
Hooked up the new IC9100 and started playing.. HRD would control the rig without issue, but it didn't put it in "SAT" mode when I was attempting to track a sat pass.. after several attempts I finally figured it out... mostly, it does track and control your rig "ok" with SATS like SO-50, but no tone control, attempted FO-29.. no go, it would control receive side but not the transmit side correctly.. more testing.. my ultimate goal here (being a newbie) was to have software control the rig so I could concentrate on the communication without having to deal with radio tuning as well (although the IC-9100 makes that very easy now that I have it figured out)..
Anyway, to make a long story short I got frustrated with HRD (keep in mind I'm using egg beaters with pre amps, no rotator control necessary), so I gave SATPC32 a shot.. As most have stated the learning curve it higher with SATPC32 however it does handle the IC-9100 SAT control quite well, puts the rig in SAT mode, tunes both receive and transmit sides correctly regardless of SAT mode (FM, linear inverting, etc).. it's not pretty but it works well..
So bottom line, to each his own... My suggestion is to do your research, check out all options and test.. then test some more, find what works for you.
My preference for SAT work is SATPC32 to control the rig, Heavens Above on my tablet to see what's coming...
Thanks
David, KK4QOE
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David W0DHB Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 12:53 AM To: 'Vivona, Michael (CMG-Orlando)'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] HRD and linear birds
Michael
My experience with HRD for linear birds got some different results than others have observed. - I found the Doppler tuning worked very well, I did test it side by side with SATPC32 as well as QSOs with others using SATPC32 and we tracked each other well. - I did like the user interface - I would recommend it for hf/Terrestrial operations
But... After a year or so of struggling with HRD for satellite operations, I am now a happy SatPC32 user.
Several reasons: HRD is focusing on their main products, HRD rig control and the logging software About halfway through the beta program they broke Doppler Tuning for PowerSDR/SmartSDR (Flex Radios) and it still doesn't work. Satellite Rig control for any radio I tried, TS2000 and IC9100 did not set TX/RX modes. I never could get IC9100 Satellite rig control working properly with it.
SatPC32 is not the most glamorous user interface, but is very feature rich, I am still learning new things about its' capabilities. SatPC32 was developed by an Amateur satellite expert who uses it for his own operations, its' functionality has evolved over many years based on many hours of operation by amateurs world-wide.
My $.02
Dave W0DHB
-----Original Message----- From: AMSAT-BB [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vivona, Michael (CMG-Orlando) Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [amsat-bb] HRD and linear birds
I am trying to get a clarification about using HamRadioDeluxe and linear birds. I have heard on several occasions that HRD and its associated satellite tracking module works fine for FM birds but not for linear birds. Can someone please clarify what the actual issue is? I currently have HRD version 6X and I am looking to purchase an IC9100 to mate it with. I have contacted the HRD support folks, but the answer I get is: "not sure, try it". Well, I don't have the IC9100 yet so I can't try it. I have permission from my local AES outlet store to connect up my laptop to one of there IC9100 before I buy it. So, I need to know what the actual problem is with HRD and linear birds so I can try it in person. I hope to get to the bottom of this once and for all.thanks in advance for anyone that wants to jump in on this.
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