[amsat-bb] Re: Orbitron and WISPDDE

Andrew Glasbrenner glasbrenner at mindspring.com
Thu Aug 28 08:04:54 PDT 2008


SatPC32 does it beautifully, without any other add-on programs. I recently 
worked from Alaska to Michigan on AO-7 Mode B  (excuse me, Mode UV) with 
nothing more than my 817, laptop and cat cable, and Arrow antenna.

73, Drew KO4MA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Marranca, Jr" <KB2HSH at amsat.org>
To: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:56 AM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Orbitron and WISPDDE


> Good morning...
>
> Anybody here using Orbitron and the WISPDDE program to control their 
> radio?
> I am curious as to whether the FT-817 would work in this way.  I already 
> use
> Orbitron, so the charm in it is that I wouldn't need to use an older 
> package
> such as Instant Tune/Track to achieve half-duplex.
>
> Thanks!
>
> John KB2HSH
>
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