Good morning Amsat,
I have been struggling this morning to work SO-50 from an FT-847 and wondering if I am missing something.
I had a 26deg pass today and could hear everyone fine.
I am transmitting on 145.8500 +/- auto Doppler correction. I am using PL encode set in the radio on 67hz. I have the transmit on the subband and receive on the main band.
Am I missing something simple? I couldn't seem to get into the satellite today no matter what I did.
I have never been able to work SO-50. This same setup performed flawlessly on AO-51. My only thought is the CTCSS tone is not being generated or is not transmitting on the SUB Band? It does state ENC for Tone Encode on the FT-847 sub band.
Curious what the list thinks I may have wrong? I really want to get active on SO-50 for the rest of the summer.
Thanks for any thoughts, ideas, past gotchas, etc..
Mike
Kb8zgl
Hi Michael,
Are you using any software to work the Satellites? For example Ham Radio Deluxe or SatPC32.
I tried to get it working with HRD and it is not possible on the other hand with SatPC32 it is working like a charm.
So give it a try
73 Jan PE0SAT
On 01-09-2012 16:47, Michael J. Wolthuis wrote:
Mike,
Some FT-847s have been reported to be a bit flakey with SO-50. Others have reported no problems. I have a different rig now, but my experience was that it normally worked fine, but that every now and then I would get a pass like yours. The PL deviation and frequency checked fine, so I never found an explanation at the shack end.
Alan WA4SCA
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Michael J. Wolthuis Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2012 9:47 AM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] SO-50 and FT-847
Good morning Amsat,
I have been struggling this morning to work SO-50 from an FT-847 and wondering if I am missing something.
I had a 26deg pass today and could hear everyone fine.
I am transmitting on 145.8500 +/- auto Doppler correction. I am using PL encode set in the radio on 67hz. I have the transmit on the subband and receive on the main band.
Am I missing something simple? I couldn't seem to get into the satellite today no matter what I did.
I have never been able to work SO-50. This same setup performed flawlessly on AO-51. My only thought is the CTCSS tone is not being generated or is not transmitting on the SUB Band? It does state ENC for Tone Encode on the FT-847 sub band.
Curious what the list thinks I may have wrong? I really want to get active on SO-50 for the rest of the summer.
Thanks for any thoughts, ideas, past gotchas, etc..
Mike
Kb8zgl
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Alan P. Biddle
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Michael J. Wolthuis
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