[amsat-bb] FT-857 and Omnirig

[Scott]

On the "Satellite Tracking" window, please click the "Satellites" menu at
the top.

In the "Name" box, scroll down to the satellite you're working with.  Make
sure that the RX & TX frequencies there are fully spelled out in Hz (no
decimals!)

Click Add/Modify so that any changes you make become the active settings
for that satellite.

Back on the main "Satellite Tracking" window, check the box for "Use
OmniRig".  Then click the "UP + DN" button.

When I follow those steps, my FT-857 is automatically put into SPLIT mode
with one VFO tracking the uplink freq and the other tracking the downlink
freq specified in PSTRotator.

(FYI, I always manually check on the FT-857's menus to verify that the VFO
being used for transmit has the CTCSS enabled and at the correct frequency
--- I don't depend on PSTRotator to set that automatically.  In other
words, I let PSTRotator change the up & down freqs but I still manually set
everything else such as CTCSS, power, mode, etc.)

-Scott,  K4KDR

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On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 9:21 PM NA1SA Loon <na1saloon at outlook.com> wrote:

> I'm using PstRotator with Omnirig to control my new FT-857D.  I managed to
> get the computer and radio to connect, but I cannot get the TX and RX
> frequencies to display on the OmniRig side of PstRotator,  My settings
> are...
> Rig Type: FT-857
> Port: COM 3
> Baud Rate: 4800
> Data Bits 8
> Parity: None
> Stop Bits: 1
> RTS: Low
> DTR: High
> Poll int ms: 500
> Timeout: 4000
>
> When in connects to the radio it only shows the RX frequency in OmniRig
> and it keeps changing the radios VFO to display a shortened frequency
> number... instead of 145.950 it shows 145.95.   I then get a TX ERROR msg
> when you push the PTT and I end doing a reset to get the radio out of this
> mode.  I'm stumped...
>
> Loon