[amsat-bb] IC-9700 mode setting problem

Mark L. Hammond marklhammond at gmail.com
Sun Jul 7 17:29:18 UTC 2019


Hi Erich, my IC-9700 with firmware 1.11 runs perfectly.  I have not seen
the DATA mode mysteriously show up on any satellite.

Mark N8MH

On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 6:15 AM Dave Webb KB1PVH via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> Erich,
>
>  I'm running firmware 1.11 and everything works as it should.
>
> Dave-KB1PVH
>
>
> Sent from my Galaxy S9
>
> On Sun, Jul 7, 2019, 12:05 PM Erich Eichmann via AMSAT-BB <
> amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > A German user of the IC-9700 (Firmware vers. 1.11) reports the following
> > problem when controlling the radio by SatPC32: When he selects a
> > satellite the frequencies are set correctly, but the downlink mode goes
> > immediatly to DATA mode.  With FO-29, AO-07 the radio displays 'USB-D'
> > as downlink mode, with SO-50 'FM-D', the same with all satellites.
> > The mode settings in Doppler.SQF are correct (USB, FM etc.). The uplink
> > mode is set correctly to LSB, FM etc. He can change to normal mode by
> > pressing the field DATA in the mode screen, but when he selects another
> > satellite the radio switchs  again to DATA mode.
> >
> > With my radio (Firmwarevers. 1.06) also  the donwlink mode is set
> > correctly to USB , FM etc (without the  '-D'). I can manually switch to
> > USB-D, FM-D etc.  by pressing the field 'DATA' in the mode screen. The
> > '-D' then remains until I switch to another satellite, because the
> > program sets the mode only once when the satellite is selected. When I
> > switch to another satellite the radio goes to back to USB, FM etc.
> >
> > Has someone noticed such problem?
> > Many thainks.
> > 73s, Erich, DK1TB
> >
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