Re: Alinco DJ-G7 updates
Alan - Are you experiencing any improved performance on the sub-band when working the birds?
Clint, K6LCS
Clint,
Actually, I gave up on it as a satellite rig. Right now, it is being used, with great success, as the RF for a fill-in APRS digi. If someone reports better satellite results, I will give it a try when the WX warms.
Alan WA4SCA
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Clint Bradford Sent: 08 December, 2009 16:46 To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Alinco DJ-G7 updates
Alan - Are you experiencing any improved performance on the sub-band when working the birds?
Clint, K6LCS
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... Actually, I gave up on it as a satellite rig ...
Darn. Still leaves us without a viable TRUE duplex HT in the marketplace.
Man, if I win the lottery, I'll have the IC-W32a re-issued ... with complete voice prompts for the vision-impaired, 1.0 and/or 2.5khz tuning steps, 2.5W with 4.8VDC, 1,000 memories, some sort of USB charging capability, commercial spring belt clip, AMSAT membership form ...
That little radio has a great "feel" in your hand. It is missed ....
Clint, K6LCS
From: Clint Bradford clintbrad4d@earthlink.net Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:33:55 -0800
>> ... Actually, I gave up on it as a satellite rig ...
Darn. Still leaves us without a viable TRUE duplex HT in the marketplace.
Man, if I win the lottery, I'll have the IC-W32a re-issued ... with complete voice prompts for the vision-impaired, 1.0 and/or 2.5khz tuning steps, 2.5W with 4.8VDC, 1,000 memories, some sort of USB charging capability, commercial spring belt clip, AMSAT membership form ...
That little radio has a great "feel" in your hand. It is missed ....
Memories need to be capable of storing cross-band splits (TX on one band, RX on another), which I don't think ICOM usually supports.
73, doug
On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Alan P. Biddle wrote:
Clint,
Actually, I gave up on it as a satellite rig. Right now, it is being used, with great success, as the RF for a fill-in APRS digi. If someone reports better satellite results, I will give it a try when the WX warms.
Alan WA4SCA
I have not tested it on satellites but the sensitivity on the sub-band is not good compared to the main-band.
To solve this you can enable the "lamp/squelch" button to be the PTT. Now you can receive on the main-band and when pressing the "lamp/squelch" the PTT is x-mitting on the frequency you have on the sub-band.
This could be a solution for the bad sensitivity.
Kai Gunter LA3QMA
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Alan P. Biddle -
Clint Bradford -
Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604 -
Kai Gunter Brandt