Hi all,
I've just bought a Kansas City Tracker board, and have a couple questions about it. I hope someone that reads this list might have the answer?
I haven't received my board yet, but from what I've read online, there were a few options available on the KCT.
Of particular interest to me is the 'Rotor Interface' Option, since my azimuth rotor is a CDE/Hygain Ham II. I've read that the KCT was designed more for the Yaesu/Kenpro type rotors, but this option was available to facilitate use with other rotors.
Can anyone tell me how to identify which options my board has installed?
Thanks much and 73,
Kyle Yoksh KØKN Olathe, Kansas Amsat# 35249
At 9:45 AM -0500 10/2/06, Kyle Yoksh wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to identify which options my board has installed?
The only options I'm aware of are the Rotor Interface Option and the Tuner Option.
You have the Tuner option if your board has two 2651 UARTs and 1488/1489 level converter ICs on it.
The manual says this:
The rotor interface option's presence can be determined by looking at the KCT rotor interface card. If it has 3 ICs with 8 pins each (4 down each size), the option was installed on your card. This option is needed on the LLG02 revision "B" card only.
By the way, the KCT manuals and original software are available at http://www.amsat.org/amsat/catalog/kct/index.html -- the drawings included show some rotor interface details.
73 -Paul kb5mu@amsat.org
I just noticed that when I'm working FM sats My d/l get's desenced, when I'm transmitting. This doesn't happen on SSB birds, only FM , and it just started. I also tried another Transceiver and the problem doesn't exist, I would think that would eliminate any problems with the antenna system, feedline, etc. Did anyone else ever have this problem with their 847?
73 Jeff kb2m
Jeff,
I had something similar. It was exactly like the normal mode VU problem people report and usually fix with a diplexer. I eventually discovered that it happened even with both antenna ports connected to shielded dummy loads. I suspected that it might have been caused by an internal grounding problem. As it happened, I was getting ready to send the rig off to Yaesu for some other work, so I never got around to tightening anything. While that was a true nightmare, when I came back, eventually, that was fixed, though not much else was. And now I have a nasty chirp on CW, but only in SAT mode.
Alan WA4SCA
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