Satpc 32 question on tracking
Got tracking working with the FoxDelta ST USB version this past weekend. Doppler correction is working on the IC-9100.
When I ask it to track SO-50, it is supposed to go to 175.8 azimuth and 1 elevation but instead it goes to 356 azimuth and 138 elevation. I setup the FoxDelta for 180 elevation max and 450 azimuth max.
You would think there is an issue with the FoxDelta. But.... If I switch to PO-101, it moves exactly to its location perfectly. I switch back to SO-50 and it goes to a whacky az/el.
Have not turned off or touched either the Yaesu controller or FoxDelta, RS-44 coming over, tracked it perfectly.
Again not touching anything, just set it for AO-7. Was supposed to be AZ 337.5 and EL 5.8 but rotor went to AZ 158 and EL 176. The ServerDX says target 159az/178el and actual 159az/178el.
Any suggestions? It has done this with several satellites. Even if I turn off the Yaesu controller and the FoxDelta and turn them back on, it goes to the whacky location for SO-50 and perfectly to PO-101.
On the Rotor page, there is a park location of 10 az and 180 el. Correction has zeroes in both az/el. Park automatically after pass is off. ServerDX shows target
Scratching my head on this one.
73...bruce
Looks like you have antennas set for flip mode. They will start up in the opposite direction and then flip over back to below 90 on elevation once the satellite has passed your location. See if that is the case.
73 Stefan VE4SW
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 5:06 PM Bruce via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Got tracking working with the FoxDelta ST USB version this past weekend. Doppler correction is working on the IC-9100.
When I ask it to track SO-50, it is supposed to go to 175.8 azimuth and 1 elevation but instead it goes to 356 azimuth and 138 elevation. I setup the FoxDelta for 180 elevation max and 450 azimuth max.
You would think there is an issue with the FoxDelta. But.... If I switch to PO-101, it moves exactly to its location perfectly. I switch back to SO-50 and it goes to a whacky az/el.
Have not turned off or touched either the Yaesu controller or FoxDelta, RS-44 coming over, tracked it perfectly.
Again not touching anything, just set it for AO-7. Was supposed to be AZ 337.5 and EL 5.8 but rotor went to AZ 158 and EL 176. The ServerDX says target 159az/178el and actual 159az/178el.
Any suggestions? It has done this with several satellites. Even if I turn off the Yaesu controller and the FoxDelta and turn them back on, it goes to the whacky location for SO-50 and perfectly to PO-101.
On the Rotor page, there is a park location of 10 az and 180 el. Correction has zeroes in both az/el. Park automatically after pass is off. ServerDX shows target
Scratching my head on this one.
73...bruce
--
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AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Member 2016-2020
ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE
Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also live streaming MP3 athttp://www.amsatnet.com Podcast athttp://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes
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If the R in the upper left corner is yellow it means it's in flip mode if I remember correctly.
Dave-KB1PVH
Sent from my Galaxy S9
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020, 6:36 PM Stefan Wagener via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Looks like you have antennas set for flip mode. They will start up in the opposite direction and then flip over back to below 90 on elevation once the satellite has passed your location. See if that is the case.
73 Stefan VE4SW
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 5:06 PM Bruce via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Got tracking working with the FoxDelta ST USB version this past weekend. Doppler correction is working on the IC-9100.
When I ask it to track SO-50, it is supposed to go to 175.8 azimuth and 1 elevation but instead it goes to 356 azimuth and 138 elevation. I setup the FoxDelta for 180 elevation max and 450 azimuth max.
You would think there is an issue with the FoxDelta. But.... If I switch to PO-101, it moves exactly to its location perfectly. I switch back to SO-50 and it goes to a whacky az/el.
Have not turned off or touched either the Yaesu controller or FoxDelta, RS-44 coming over, tracked it perfectly.
Again not touching anything, just set it for AO-7. Was supposed to be AZ 337.5 and EL 5.8 but rotor went to AZ 158 and EL 176. The ServerDX says target 159az/178el and actual 159az/178el.
Any suggestions? It has done this with several satellites. Even if I turn off the Yaesu controller and the FoxDelta and turn them back on, it goes to the whacky location for SO-50 and perfectly to PO-101.
On the Rotor page, there is a park location of 10 az and 180 el. Correction has zeroes in both az/el. Park automatically after pass is off. ServerDX shows target
Scratching my head on this one.
73...bruce
--
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AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Member 2016-2020
ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE
Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also live streaming MP3 athttp://www.amsatnet.com Podcast athttp://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes
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I would be perfectly happy if it were in a flipped mode pointing in the correct direction. That would explain the elevation rotor. How do you explain the azimuth rotor being off 138 degrees? If the elevation were flipped, the azimuth should be 180 degrees off. Then it would be just fine. Or am I thinking incorrectly here?
I just updated the keps with the NASA keps. Will see if that fixes anything. Just an interesting situation. RS-44 is coming up in 15 minutes. It has always tracked it perfectly.
73...bruce
On 7/3/2020 5:38 PM, Dave Webb KB1PVH via AMSAT-BB wrote:
If the R in the upper left corner is yellow it means it's in flip mode if I remember correctly.
Dave-KB1PVH
Sent from my Galaxy S9
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020, 6:36 PM Stefan Wagener via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Looks like you have antennas set for flip mode. They will start up in the opposite direction and then flip over back to below 90 on elevation once the satellite has passed your location. See if that is the case.
73 Stefan VE4SW
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 5:06 PM Bruce via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Got tracking working with the FoxDelta ST USB version this past weekend. Doppler correction is working on the IC-9100.
When I ask it to track SO-50, it is supposed to go to 175.8 azimuth and 1 elevation but instead it goes to 356 azimuth and 138 elevation. I setup the FoxDelta for 180 elevation max and 450 azimuth max.
You would think there is an issue with the FoxDelta. But.... If I switch to PO-101, it moves exactly to its location perfectly. I switch back to SO-50 and it goes to a whacky az/el.
Have not turned off or touched either the Yaesu controller or FoxDelta, RS-44 coming over, tracked it perfectly.
Again not touching anything, just set it for AO-7. Was supposed to be AZ 337.5 and EL 5.8 but rotor went to AZ 158 and EL 176. The ServerDX says target 159az/178el and actual 159az/178el.
Any suggestions? It has done this with several satellites. Even if I turn off the Yaesu controller and the FoxDelta and turn them back on, it goes to the whacky location for SO-50 and perfectly to PO-101.
On the Rotor page, there is a park location of 10 az and 180 el. Correction has zeroes in both az/el. Park automatically after pass is off. ServerDX shows target
Scratching my head on this one.
73...bruce
--
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AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Member 2016-2020
ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE
Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also live streaming MP3 athttp://www.amsatnet.com Podcast athttp://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes
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It's perfectly fine
...."Was supposed to be AZ 337.5 and EL 5.8 but rotor went to AZ 158 and EL 176. The ServerDX says target 159az/178el and actual 159az/178el."....
337 AZ -180 is 157 (158 actual on your rotor) 5.8 E -180 is +_174 (176 actual on your rotor)
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 5:57 PM Bruce via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
I would be perfectly happy if it were in a flipped mode pointing in the correct direction. That would explain the elevation rotor. How do you explain the azimuth rotor being off 138 degrees? If the elevation were flipped, the azimuth should be 180 degrees off. Then it would be just fine. Or am I thinking incorrectly here?
I just updated the keps with the NASA keps. Will see if that fixes anything. Just an interesting situation. RS-44 is coming up in 15 minutes. It has always tracked it perfectly.
73...bruce
On 7/3/2020 5:38 PM, Dave Webb KB1PVH via AMSAT-BB wrote:
If the R in the upper left corner is yellow it means it's in flip mode
if I
remember correctly.
Dave-KB1PVH
Sent from my Galaxy S9
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020, 6:36 PM Stefan Wagener via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb@amsat.org>
wrote:
Looks like you have antennas set for flip mode. They will start up in
the
opposite direction and then flip over back to below 90 on elevation once the satellite has passed your location. See if that is the case.
73 Stefan VE4SW
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 5:06 PM Bruce via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Got tracking working with the FoxDelta ST USB version this past
weekend.
Doppler correction is working on the IC-9100.
When I ask it to track SO-50, it is supposed to go to 175.8 azimuth and 1 elevation but instead it goes to 356 azimuth and 138 elevation. I setup the FoxDelta for 180 elevation max and 450 azimuth max.
You would think there is an issue with the FoxDelta. But.... If I
switch
to PO-101, it moves exactly to its location perfectly. I switch back to SO-50 and it goes to a whacky az/el.
Have not turned off or touched either the Yaesu controller or FoxDelta, RS-44 coming over, tracked it perfectly.
Again not touching anything, just set it for AO-7. Was supposed to be
AZ
337.5 and EL 5.8 but rotor went to AZ 158 and EL 176. The ServerDX says target 159az/178el and actual 159az/178el.
Any suggestions? It has done this with several satellites. Even if I turn off the Yaesu controller and the FoxDelta and turn them back on,
it
goes to the whacky location for SO-50 and perfectly to PO-101.
On the Rotor page, there is a park location of 10 az and 180 el. Correction has zeroes in both az/el. Park automatically after pass is off. ServerDX shows target
Scratching my head on this one.
73...bruce
--
Bruce Paige, KK5DO
AMSAT Director Contests and Awards AMSAT Board Member 2016-2020
ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE
Houston AMSAT Net - Wed 0100z on Echolink - Conference *AMSAT* Also live streaming MP3 athttp://www.amsatnet.com Podcast athttp://www.amsatnet.com/podcast.xml or iTunes
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ARRL Awards Field Checker (WAS, 5BWAS, VUCC), VE
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