Hi Mike, I don't believe there is anything wrong with your receive... the 'static' you hear IS the AO-85 downlink. The transmitter is on and transmitting and the signal strength is going up and down due to 'tumbling', ploarity shifting, etc. The reason you hear static is that it's not like SO-50; instead of squelching when there is no signal, AO-85 simply rebroadcasts what it hears... which at the moment is 'nothing', SO it is passing the white noise from it's UHF receiver straight to the 2m transmitter. Eventually you heard a voice there at the end, so yes, you ARE hearing it. If I read the TS-2000 manual correctly, your problem is that you have the PL tone set on the receive band... not the transmit band. The 'T' should be above the sub band display in other words. So since you are not transmitting the proper PL tone of 67.0 Hz, you are not able to hear yourself come through the transponder. See about fixing that and give it another try. And from experience, I'll suggest to double check that even after you get the 'T' on the correct band, verify that it's 67.0 Hz. =^) 73, Kevin N4UFO
Actually the PL tone on AO-85 just turns the repeater on. Once it's on, there's no tone required until it times out...that's why you hear the noise on the uplink.
73, Drew KO4MA
On Feb 28, 2017, at 5:11 PM, Kevin M via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Hi Mike, I don't believe there is anything wrong with your receive... the 'static' you hear IS the AO-85 downlink. The transmitter is on and transmitting and the signal strength is going up and down due to 'tumbling', ploarity shifting, etc. The reason you hear static is that it's not like SO-50; instead of squelching when there is no signal, AO-85 simply rebroadcasts what it hears... which at the moment is 'nothing', SO it is passing the white noise from it's UHF receiver straight to the 2m transmitter. Eventually you heard a voice there at the end, so yes, you ARE hearing it. If I read the TS-2000 manual correctly, your problem is that you have the PL tone set on the receive band... not the transmit band. The 'T' should be above the sub band display in other words. So since you are not transmitting the proper PL tone of 67.0 Hz, you are not able to hear yourself come through the transponder. See about fixing that and give it another try. And from experience, I'll suggest to double check that even after you get the 'T' on the correct band, verify that it's 67.0 Hz. =^) 73, Kevin N4UFO
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AO-85 and Fox-1B/Cliff/D will start the transmitter "hang timer" when they detect the CTCSS. The tone must be again detected within 60 seconds in order to reset the hang timer else the downlink transmission will stop. By having your tone on your uplink signal all the time, each time someone keys it resets the hang timer.
Jerry Buxton, NØJY
On 2/28/2017 18:45, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
Actually the PL tone on AO-85 just turns the repeater on. Once it's on, there's no tone required until it times out...that's why you hear the noise on the uplink.
Thank you for the help. I shot another short video showing some more symptoms of my problem
Thank's for the help. Mike, AE0MT
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Jerry Buxton n0jy@amsat.org wrote:
AO-85 and Fox-1B/Cliff/D will start the transmitter "hang timer" when they detect the CTCSS. The tone must be again detected within 60 seconds in order to reset the hang timer else the downlink transmission will stop. By having your tone on your uplink signal all the time, each time someone keys it resets the hang timer.
Jerry Buxton, NØJY
On 2/28/2017 18:45, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
Actually the PL tone on AO-85 just turns the repeater on. Once it's on,
there's no tone required until it times out...that's why you hear the noise on the uplink.
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Did you do a full microprocessor reset by pressing [A=B]+[Power]?
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Mike Thompson zryder94@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for the help. I shot another short video showing some more symptoms of my problem
Thank's for the help. Mike, AE0MT
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Jerry Buxton n0jy@amsat.org wrote:
AO-85 and Fox-1B/Cliff/D will start the transmitter "hang timer" when they detect the CTCSS. The tone must be again detected within 60 seconds in order to reset the hang timer else the downlink transmission will stop. By having your tone on your uplink signal all the time, each time someone keys it resets the hang timer.
Jerry Buxton, NØJY
On 2/28/2017 18:45, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
Actually the PL tone on AO-85 just turns the repeater on. Once it's on,
there's no tone required until it times out...that's why you hear the noise on the uplink.
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I haven't yet, no. I will do that when I get back home later tonight.
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Paul Stoetzer n8hm@arrl.net wrote:
Did you do a full microprocessor reset by pressing [A=B]+[Power]?
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Mike Thompson zryder94@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for the help. I shot another short video showing some more symptoms of my problem
Thank's for the help. Mike, AE0MT
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Jerry Buxton n0jy@amsat.org wrote:
AO-85 and Fox-1B/Cliff/D will start the transmitter "hang timer" when they detect the CTCSS. The tone must be again detected within 60 seconds in order to reset the hang timer else the downlink transmission will stop. By having your tone on your uplink signal all the time, each time someone keys it resets the hang timer.
Jerry Buxton, NØJY
On 2/28/2017 18:45, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
Actually the PL tone on AO-85 just turns the repeater on. Once it's
on,
there's no tone required until it times out...that's why you hear the
noise
on the uplink.
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The other strange thing that I realized is the behavior shown in the 2nd video is with the rig operating with it's sub receiver running. If I understand the TS-2000's architecture, those are 2 completely separate receivers, that are both showing the same problem.
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Paul Stoetzer n8hm@arrl.net wrote:
Did you do a full microprocessor reset by pressing [A=B]+[Power]?
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Mike Thompson zryder94@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for the help. I shot another short video showing some more symptoms of my problem
Thank's for the help. Mike, AE0MT
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Jerry Buxton n0jy@amsat.org wrote:
AO-85 and Fox-1B/Cliff/D will start the transmitter "hang timer" when they detect the CTCSS. The tone must be again detected within 60 seconds in order to reset the hang timer else the downlink transmission will stop. By having your tone on your uplink signal all the time, each time someone keys it resets the hang timer.
Jerry Buxton, NØJY
On 2/28/2017 18:45, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
Actually the PL tone on AO-85 just turns the repeater on. Once it's
on,
there's no tone required until it times out...that's why you hear the
noise
on the uplink.
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Full microprocessor reset via the previous mentioned procedure did not fix the problem.
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 7:26 AM, Paul Stoetzer n8hm@arrl.net wrote:
Did you do a full microprocessor reset by pressing [A=B]+[Power]?
73,
Paul, N8HM
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 8:20 AM, Mike Thompson zryder94@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for the help. I shot another short video showing some more symptoms of my problem
Thank's for the help. Mike, AE0MT
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 11:06 PM, Jerry Buxton n0jy@amsat.org wrote:
AO-85 and Fox-1B/Cliff/D will start the transmitter "hang timer" when they detect the CTCSS. The tone must be again detected within 60 seconds in order to reset the hang timer else the downlink transmission will stop. By having your tone on your uplink signal all the time, each time someone keys it resets the hang timer.
Jerry Buxton, NØJY
On 2/28/2017 18:45, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
Actually the PL tone on AO-85 just turns the repeater on. Once it's
on,
there's no tone required until it times out...that's why you hear the
noise
on the uplink.
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