[amsat-bb] IC-9100 PAT V panadapter board

[Mark L. Hammond]

Hi Jeff, pictures please!! My board is in route.  May be a while until I
can install but hope for successes, too.

I plan to use either and Airspy or Airpsy mini and SDR# then use the
SatPC32 plugin so it tracks on frequency with the 9100.  Think that’ll work
as I imagine it.

Alan WA4SCA pointed out the board to me.  Initially I struggled with how
this is different since it’s an RF tap and not the more common IF tap
approach.

What bandwidth do you see in HF?  I forget what the RF tap frequency is.
Maybe that’s a clue.  But I figured it would be wide-ish.

I see your point about maybe not tapping 1.2 GHz; no local repeaters here
so used for sat uplinks only.

73,


Mark N8MH

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 3:19 PM <kb2mjeff at att.net> wrote:

> I posted this to the 9100 group, and also here, in case anyone might be
> interested in this. What SDR S/W is anyone using with their SDRPlay for
> sat’s? I’m trying to learn SDR-Console and the learning curve is very
> steep. I vaguely remember a few years ago getting it working with some
> other S/W....
>
>
> I finished my PAT V install on my 9100 this morning. I decided to do the
> HF tap also, but not the 23cm. It’s went well, worse part was doing the HF
> tap, I managed to move the top board out of the way without completely un
> plugging, then removing the metal shield completely to get to the HF tap
> point on the BPF board.  Everything is working ok, only issue’s are I
> haven’t figured out yet how to get the levels up to allow a better
> waterfall display.  I’m using SDR-Console. I also have to figure out how to
> get the display to follow the 9100. Just started using SDR-Console and the
> learning curve is very steep.  What I don’t understand is there is no
> frequency offset needed to use the various taps, and also the bandwidth on
> HF is very narrow? Any ideas? Also If anyone want's some pictures of my
> install I will gladly send them along.
>
> A big thanks to Dave KD2C for making this available...
>
> 73 Jeff kb2m
>
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Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]