Ham Radio Deluxe Satellite Tracker With Flex 6600

Alan

Mike-VA3MW

Can you describe you setup a bit more.

What part is DDUTIL doing?  I don't think you need it.

Mike

K1DBO

Alan

Thanks Don.  I will give it a try and let you know.   I love Slice Master!    Alan

KF4HR

Alan

Mike-VA3MW

I 'think' SATPC32 does and you treat it like 2 different units.  However, I defer to Mack who would know.

K1DBO

Check out the Sync tab in Slice Master.  It will let you sync two or more slices to another slice with an arbitrary frequency offset.



Set like this, slice B will follow slice A with a 1khz offset.  So any time slice A changes frequency, slice B will change too.  Slice B is still free to move on its own.  But you could set slice A to follow slice B with a -1khz offset if you wanted them to stay fully in sync.

--Don

K1DBO

I've never tried HRD Satelite Tracker until just now.  I was expecting that the multi VFO protocol used by HRD Logbook would also be used by HRD Satelite Tracker.  They seem to speak a different dialect.  I'm happy to call it a defect and will look into it further.  Thanks for giving it a try.

Alan

Don.   FYI, synching is not what I am working on.  I need two slices to be CAT controlled independently from HRD Sat Tracker.

Sat Tracker adjusts the two VFOs separately to adjust for doppler of each (i.e. 430mhz on one, 145mhz on another).  The constant offset described earlier is a feature within the Sat Tracker Program if selected as an option, but is for controlling two bands.  I understand there are several methods to adjust for doppler, all handled within the Tracker software.  So back to CAT control of two slices.

Alan

Thanks Don.  I would prefer to use Slice Master for Sat Tracker, same as I do for other programs.  I really like how it simplifies the interfaces with multiple slices.

John - K3MA

Alan

dlwarnberg

SatPC32....  yet another reason I did not use HRD at all...
Lots of good documentation on how to set up a SAT station using a 6XXX series radio.

dlwarnberg

K1DBO

dlwarnberg

K1DBO

Alan

Don.   Thanks for your quick reply to adapt SliceMaster to configure HRD Sat Tracker.  Sat Tracker is easy to configure with SliceMaster and setup with multiple instances such as WSJT-X on a third slice via DAX works great!

Alan

Dave

Thanks for the configure info.  I gave your configuration a try and it kind of works, but not in always.  In David's, W0DHB, paper on using SatPC32 on a Flex, he said not all functions required to track satelittes would work.  David refers to the need for FlexSatPC which he develped to bridge the gap.   I have communicated with David and downloaded his latest FlexSatPC.  David said FlexSatPC was written to only work with Smart SDR 3 or 2.5, so I am waiting for the release of SmartSDR2.5 before giving it a test.

Sergey KN7K

K1DBO

Sergey KN7K

Ha, not easy to fine.
Thank you Don again, installed and running.

Sergey, KN7K