[amsat-bb] ICOM 9700 Display In Sat Mode

[Mark L. Hammond]

Hi Tony,

It's how it works, due to CAT command issues...  You'll get used to it ;-)
Wait until we have microwave downconverters with the GOLF birds, during TCA
:-)


Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]
AMSAT Director and Command Station



On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 2:56 PM Tony via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> All:
>
> I watched a few ICOM 9700 videos on Youtube and noticed that the display
> constantly switches from one band to the other while in Sat mode.
>
> It seems to take place while the satellite tracking software corrects
> each band for Doppler during a pass and I would imagine that constant
> highlighting of the display would hypnotize the user after a while : )
>
> Is there a way to turn it off?
>
> Tony
>
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