[amsat-bb] Re: software for two-rig doppler control?

[Nigel Gunn G8IFF/W8IFF]

Don't forget Ham Radio Deluxe.
It will control as many radios as you have ports to connect them to.

Mark Spencer wrote:
> Interesting thanks.  I'll have to look into this.  I'd get a lot of value from being able to controll two or more receivers at the same time (as well as one transmitter.)    
> 
> Regards
> Mark VE7AFZ
> 
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark L. Hammond <marklhammond at gmail.com>
> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 7:55:48 AM
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: software for two-rig doppler control?
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> SatPC32 will let you run two different rigs at the same time.  This
> works well if you use one to TX and another to RX, using SatPC32 ver
> 12.8
> 
> Lately, I have been wanting to simulaneously control 2 radios--both
> with TX and RX.  So, what I do is run a second copy of an older
> version of SatPC32 (ver 12.7).    You can install the older version
> into a different location and set it up to run only the radio (not
> track box).  I don't think it's possible to run two copies of 12.8
> because of the install/default locations for the data files...
> Fortunately, 12.7 keeps the files in the same directory as the
> installed program, so you can run as many copies of that as you want!
> 
> It takes a bit of work to get 2 copies running and configured
> correctly, since you have to configure them separately.  But the files
> with frequency info, etc. can be copied so they use the same
> frequencies etc.  It's not too bad, really, given the benefits.
> 
> Why would I want to do this?  I have two rigs I want to
> control...TS-2000X and TS-790A.  This lets me hear both AO-51
> repeaters at once (or do digital/telemetry on one, voice on the
> other), let's me use one for S-band receive, and so on.  It's actually
> quite handy to mix/match transmitters/receivers.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Mark N8MH
> 
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> Subject: [amsat-bb] software for two-rig doppler control?
> From: Bill Dzurilla <billdz.geo at xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:29:55 -0700 (PDT)
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> 
> Isn't there a software program that automatically tunes two rigs so that each
> remains on a sat's uplink and downlink frequencies during a pass and corrects
> for doppler?
> 
> I recall reading about such a program but now can't find it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill NZ5N
> 
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