[amsat-bb] FM sats with Baofeng HTs -- tone QC

[Pedro Converso]

Hi Devin,

Perhaps you can double check your UV-5R programmed channels using
http://lu7aa.org/upload/PROGRAMAS/UV_5R_VIP.exe , it is more user friendly
than Chirp.

73, LU7ABF, Pedro

On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 4:55 AM, Devin L. Ganger <devin at thecabal.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> I've been working like a dog trying to get to the stage where I can hear
> myself on the FM sats and I am having no luck.
>
> I have an Elk log periodic dual-band antenna, a duplexer, and two Baofeng
> UV5R radios. I think I've programmed the sat channels with the correct
> tones, but I've done all of my programming on these radios in CHIRP and I'm
> wondering if I'm doing it wrong somehow, since all my previous programming
> for tones was for repeaters - and CHIRP does that for me via RepeaterBook.
>
> Does anyone who uses a Baofeng to transmit to FM sats have a sample line
> from a CHIRP file they could share so I can double-check my settings?
>
> If my settings are right...is there an easy method to determine if my
> radios are actually sending out the correct tones?
>
> Otherwise, I'm starting to think I bought a bum duplexer. I've verified
> the duplexer works on UHF against a local repeater.
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
>
> --
> Devin L. Ganger (WA7DLG)
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