[amsat-bb] UPDATE

[James McIrvin]

Good evening all.
I would like to thank all of those that have helped with information that
they have sent to me and also Erich Eichmann for him pointing me in the
right direction to finding my error in trying to get the software working
with the radio.
He forced me to look at things deeper than I had and once I did what he
said things came together nicely.

Now that I have been able to make a small handful of contacts on the XW-2
sats, I can start to work on some of the other things to make it much more
enjoyable and be able to see about doing a couple other sats where there is
digital stuff going on.
Have to take some of this in small steps to get it working and that is what
is going on.
I also have to figure out the settings to tweak the doppler file for the
radio so that I may not have to fiddle with too many adjustments.  I know
that there will be some, but that is the way things work.

I also have to work on making up some cheat sheets for myself, now that I
am able to get on some I look forward in working some of you folks when the
sats permit me to have those qso's.
However, the next venture I need to deal with here is getting mast mounted
preamps setup so that I will have a better chance of hearing things and
working more stuff when it is there.  The ones that I have made have been
with just the eggbeater antenna's that I have set up on a temp tripod and
the radio preamp.  I know once I get it out at the base of the antenna it
will enhance things due to feedline loss that I have now.  Once I figure
out what I want to do with some of this stuff as to placement of the
antennas to a more permanent location in the yard I can tweak feedline and
alike.  However, here in the northeast with the ice and snow at this time
can't do much in trying to dig up the ground and lay a conduit to the site
for working with this stuff.  It all comes in time.

THANK YOU AGAIN TO ALL THOSE THAT HAVE HELPED ME.
Have a great evening.

73 de Jim N1IPA

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