FoxTelem Program & RTL820T Dongles
After reading the manual from FoxTelem, I decided to thy the 192KHz wide suggestion they made ... the intent being to use SDR-Console/Satellite and the RTL820T Dongle.
SDRC/Satellite is unable to auto-switch to the next in a list of Sats so making a bandwidth big enough to take in the lower end of one to the upper end of the others means, technically, 'set and forget' .
I never did understand though where the Find-Sat "switch" was. I was hoping a strong signal somewhere in the bandwidth, which I could see was wide enough to cover the 4, would be enough to make the FoxTelem program seek out the Sat and decode it.
I'd hoped to be able to activate the programs overnight and collect from 85 91 92 95 .
It didn't work out. Though in testing, I could visually see the Telem/Signal come up.
So is anyone using this combo willing to give me some pointers?
Thanks
-- 73 Bob KD7YZ AMSAT LM #901
Hi Bob,
I have done that successfully with both an SDRPlay RSP2 and a FunCube Pro +. Here is what I learned: You must run those FM rx with squelch on. In other words, set up each SDRC rx with FM Squelch , Narrow Filters (12 kHz is fine).
When I tried to run them unsquelched I got no decodes. Once squelched, all decode fine if freq is clear (lots of junk on the downlink band from computer stuff)
73, N0AN Hasan
On Sun, Dec 9, 2018 at 4:17 PM Bob KD7YZ kd7yz@denstarfarm.us wrote:
After reading the manual from FoxTelem, I decided to thy the 192KHz wide suggestion they made ... the intent being to use SDR-Console/Satellite and the RTL820T Dongle.
SDRC/Satellite is unable to auto-switch to the next in a list of Sats so making a bandwidth big enough to take in the lower end of one to the upper end of the others means, technically, 'set and forget' .
I never did understand though where the Find-Sat "switch" was. I was hoping a strong signal somewhere in the bandwidth, which I could see was wide enough to cover the 4, would be enough to make the FoxTelem program seek out the Sat and decode it.
I'd hoped to be able to activate the programs overnight and collect from 85 91 92 95 .
It didn't work out. Though in testing, I could visually see the Telem/Signal come up.
So is anyone using this combo willing to give me some pointers?
Thanks
-- 73 Bob KD7YZ AMSAT LM #901
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