[amsat-bb] D72 to Falconsat-3 "User Phrases"

[Tom Schuessler]

Thank you Patrick and also to Rick for your responses. I am looking forward to giving this a try and have a successful cure sellable before field day. A lot of different concepts and procedures to absorb. 

73

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> On Jun 5, 2018, at 22:39, Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK) <amsat-bb at wd9ewk.net> wrote:
> 
> Tom, 
> 
> When you are in the screen to send a message to a 
> call sign, you press the F key to bring up the list
> of "phrases" (stored messages). Then you scroll up
> or down using either the round button or VFO knob 
> to highlight the message you want, then press the 
> right side of the round button. This puts the phrase 
> into the message text line. If you have not stored
> any of these messages, either using the keypad or 
> the Kenwood software, the F key won't bring anything
> up while you are trying to compose a message. 
> 
> The printed manual in the TH-D72A box doesn't address 
> these messages. You have to either use the larger manual
> on the CD, or you can download the larger manual from 
> Kenwood:
> 
> http://manual.kenwood.com/files/4ff15b9c0988f.pdf
> 
> I found the phrases covered on page 65 of this 75-page
> PDF. If printed out, it would be on page 22 of the APRS
> section of the manual. 
> 
> I apologize if you were hoping for a complete step-by-
> step instruction in my FalconSat-3 article that was in
> a recent AMSAT Journal. Had I done that, the article 
> would have been much longer, and parts of it would read
> like a Kenwood manual. I hope that this message, taken
> with the TH-D72's manuals and what you have already 
> read, helps you get set up to exchange messages via
> FalconSat-3 soon. 
> 
> 73!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK 
> http://www.wd9ewk.net/
> Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 3:23 AM, <tjschuessler at verizon.net> wrote:
>> I am confused, which is not an uncommon thing.  I have been wanting to try
>> and figure out how to work Falxonsat-3 via my Kenwood D72a.  I read Pat
>> Stoddard's AMSAT Journal article but he does not do a step by step per se.
>> I also read KB6IGK and WD9EWKs other article on the same subject.  Mention
>> is made on setting "User phrases". Looking at several different D72 manuals,
>> I cannot for the life of me, see how one selects the phrase to use and how
>> that gets into the string that is sent.  I see the ability to set several
>> phrases from inside RT systems D72 menu program (Not sure how those get
>> entered in manual radio programming), nor do I see any instructions for
>> sending).  I watched a YouTube video of a guy making Falconst APRS contacts,
>> but no explanation on how he got the phrases out.
>> 
>> Wisdom please,
>> 
>> 73 and thanks for the patient mentoring.
>> 
>> Tom Schuessler, N5HYP
>> EM12ms
>> 
>> ​