FM sats with Baofeng HTs -- tone QC
All,
I've been working like a dog trying to get to the stage where I can hear myself on the FM sats and I am having no luck.
I have an Elk log periodic dual-band antenna, a duplexer, and two Baofeng UV5R radios. I think I've programmed the sat channels with the correct tones, but I've done all of my programming on these radios in CHIRP and I'm wondering if I'm doing it wrong somehow, since all my previous programming for tones was for repeaters - and CHIRP does that for me via RepeaterBook.
Does anyone who uses a Baofeng to transmit to FM sats have a sample line from a CHIRP file they could share so I can double-check my settings?
If my settings are right...is there an easy method to determine if my radios are actually sending out the correct tones?
Otherwise, I'm starting to think I bought a bum duplexer. I've verified the duplexer works on UHF against a local repeater.
Thanks for any ideas,
-- Devin L. Ganger (WA7DLG) email: [email protected]mailto:[email protected] web: Devin on Earthhttp://www.devinonearth.com/ cell: +1 425.239.2575
Hi,
Here you go. http://plus2.dutrasousa.name/AMSAT_Baofeng_UV-5R_20180314.zip
73 Pedro CU2ZG
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On 6 May 2018, at 07:55, Devin L. Ganger [email protected] wrote:
All,
I've been working like a dog trying to get to the stage where I can hear myself on the FM sats and I am having no luck.
I have an Elk log periodic dual-band antenna, a duplexer, and two Baofeng UV5R radios. I think I've programmed the sat channels with the correct tones, but I've done all of my programming on these radios in CHIRP and I'm wondering if I'm doing it wrong somehow, since all my previous programming for tones was for repeaters - and CHIRP does that for me via RepeaterBook.
Does anyone who uses a Baofeng to transmit to FM sats have a sample line from a CHIRP file they could share so I can double-check my settings?
If my settings are right...is there an easy method to determine if my radios are actually sending out the correct tones?
Otherwise, I'm starting to think I bought a bum duplexer. I've verified the duplexer works on UHF against a local repeater.
Thanks for any ideas,
-- Devin L. Ganger (WA7DLG) email: [email protected]mailto:[email protected] web: Devin on Earthhttp://www.devinonearth.com/ cell: +1 425.239.2575
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Devin,
You did not say whether you can hear others on the FM satellites. If you can, here is one way to help figure out if your issue is tone. On AO-85, 91, and 92 best practice is to use a 67Hz tone, but in reality, as long as you can hear others, you don't need a tone. The tone prevents the repeater from timing out after a couple minutes, but in the meantime, it will still repeat you without a tone. So if you can NOT hear yourself, but can hear others, tone is likely not the problem (on these specific birds--I don't know about SO-50).
73,
Burns WB1FJ (who wrote the code on the satellites that picks out the tone!)
Hi Devin,
Perhaps you can double check your UV-5R programmed channels using http://lu7aa.org/upload/PROGRAMAS/UV_5R_VIP.exe , it is more user friendly than Chirp.
73, LU7ABF, Pedro
On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 4:55 AM, Devin L. Ganger [email protected] wrote:
All,
I've been working like a dog trying to get to the stage where I can hear myself on the FM sats and I am having no luck.
I have an Elk log periodic dual-band antenna, a duplexer, and two Baofeng UV5R radios. I think I've programmed the sat channels with the correct tones, but I've done all of my programming on these radios in CHIRP and I'm wondering if I'm doing it wrong somehow, since all my previous programming for tones was for repeaters - and CHIRP does that for me via RepeaterBook.
Does anyone who uses a Baofeng to transmit to FM sats have a sample line from a CHIRP file they could share so I can double-check my settings?
If my settings are right...is there an easy method to determine if my radios are actually sending out the correct tones?
Otherwise, I'm starting to think I bought a bum duplexer. I've verified the duplexer works on UHF against a local repeater.
Thanks for any ideas,
-- Devin L. Ganger (WA7DLG) email: [email protected]mailto:[email protected] web: Devin on Earthhttp://www.devinonearth.com/ cell: +1 425.239.2575
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