[amsat-bb] help with PACSAT and Kenwood TM-D710GA

[Roy Dean]

Kevin,

I can't remember how I did it, but you can absolutely use AC2CZ's Pacsat
groundstation with the D710, as I have successfully done it with mine.    I
cannot remember for the life of me how I did it, however, as we only get
35deg max passes up here, and my house blocks my antenna's view to the
south - so I am only able to use the highest 10 degrees of the "high"
passes, and even then getting into the bird is tough.

One main thing to remember is that you have the TNC speed (9600), and you
also have the serial port speed.   Make sure that your serial port is
making a good connection with the D710.   I ended up practicing the
connection on 144.39 with Direwolf (standard APRS).   When i was finally
able to view the packets via the serial port on Direwolf, I changed all the
necessary radio settings over to 9600 packet and then the pacsat
groundstation worked.

If you can't get it going, I can mess around with it this weekend and see
if I can replicate my earlier success.

--Roy
K3RLD