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

[Patrick STODDARD (WD9EWK/VA7EWK)]

Hi Don!

The web page Andrew KE8FZT is a great resource for setting up
a D72 for FalconSat-3's digipeater. I referenced his site in
my AMSAT Journal article, as he had the same settings I used
when I got started with this satellite - and he already had
screenshots from the radio. Why reinvent the proverbial
wheel? :-)

The easiest way to set up a D72 for FalconSat-3's digipeater
is probably with the Kenwood MCP-4A software and COM port
driver on a Windows PC. Then you aren't having to go through
the menus on a small screen, and you don't have to enter
messages and text like you would enter an SMS message on a
flip-phone (multiple presses of a key to get a particular
character). All of this *can* be done with the D72's front
panel, but there is a better way through the software.

73!




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



On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 1:44 PM, Don KB2YSI <kb2ysi at gmail.com> wrote:

> As an FYI /additional resource:
> https://andrewbnortham.com/ke8fzt/falconsat/
>
> I do not know how it rates with the others, but figured I'd share.
>
> 73, Don KB2YSI
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018, 23:25 <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
> >
> >
> >
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