[amsat-bb] AO-73/FUNcube mode switch.

[Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)]

Jeff,

You may end up transmitting from the FT-857 and listening
with the IC-706 for AO-73. It was the third generation of
the 706 line, the IC-706Mk2G, which added 70cm to the
other bands it already had (HF, 6m, 2m). Good luck with
your setup, and hopefully you can meet that goal before
the month is out.

73!




Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
Twitter: @WD9EWK



On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Jeff A. Boyd <the2belo at msd.biglobe.ne.jp>
wrote:

>
>
> Perfect.
>
> As a complete neophyte at SSB transponder operation this will give me a
> great opportunity, over my holiday break, to work all
> the bugs out of the mobile station I just built. Icom IC-706 (first
> generation, 1996 vintage! Yipe!) up, Yaesu FT857D down,
> Alaskan Arrow on a tripod with ball mount and separate feeds, old laptop
> running Ubuntu and SATPC32 on Wine for tracking.
> Whenever the CAT cable for this Icom arrives, then I'll have computer
> control of tuning for both rigs.
>
> I think this operator should commit himself to achieving the goal, before
> this month is out, of landing a signal on AO-73 and
> returning it safely to the Earth.
>