Good evening all. I would like to thank all of those that have helped with information that they have sent to me and also Erich Eichmann for him pointing me in the right direction to finding my error in trying to get the software working with the radio. He forced me to look at things deeper than I had and once I did what he said things came together nicely.

Now that I have been able to make a small handful of contacts on the XW-2 sats, I can start to work on some of the other things to make it much more enjoyable and be able to see about doing a couple other sats where there is digital stuff going on. Have to take some of this in small steps to get it working and that is what is going on. I also have to figure out the settings to tweak the doppler file for the radio so that I may not have to fiddle with too many adjustments. I know that there will be some, but that is the way things work.

I also have to work on making up some cheat sheets for myself, now that I am able to get on some I look forward in working some of you folks when the sats permit me to have those qso's. However, the next venture I need to deal with here is getting mast mounted preamps setup so that I will have a better chance of hearing things and working more stuff when it is there. The ones that I have made have been with just the eggbeater antenna's that I have set up on a temp tripod and the radio preamp. I know once I get it out at the base of the antenna it will enhance things due to feedline loss that I have now. Once I figure out what I want to do with some of this stuff as to placement of the antennas to a more permanent location in the yard I can tweak feedline and alike. However, here in the northeast with the ice and snow at this time can't do much in trying to dig up the ground and lay a conduit to the site for working with this stuff. It all comes in time.

THANK YOU AGAIN TO ALL THOSE THAT HAVE HELPED ME. Have a great evening.

73 de Jim N1IPA

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