I have had one for several years but I do not use it regularly because every time i try to use it it does not control my 9700 properly. the up and down frequencies are wrong. The mode is wrong. it just does not work!
We have offered many times to get on a zoom call with us. You have not taken us up on the offer. As I stated many times please email us. We will get on a zoom call with you. At some point you were going to contact Icom to have your radio repaired. Again you never got back to us.
Here is your email to us" I don't want to waste your time. I am reaching out to ICOM to see if it is a problem with the radio. I appreciate all your help. Both you and Keith and I have told many people on the Ham nets that I frequent about your help. Let me see what I find out from ICOM. I am supposed to call them on Monday 73 Bill" Here was our reply to you"No problem but it’s not a bother that’s what we’re here for. We can help you make sure that everything is set right. i let us know what ICOM says and we’re always here for you so don’t feel bad. "
I can't say enough about these guys, the best technical support you'll ever find ! They take care of you like it should be! No pressing 1 for this, no pressing 2 for that department, in fact when you contact them you may get responses from multiple people, they don't play around they get you up and running! Thank you guys, your the best!
I think I might be receiving chirps from the satellite. They are all the way across the waterfall and they sound like a video game sound. I don’t the see the signal from 1000-2000 on the waterfall. I don’t see anything decode and I believe I have everything set up correctly. I might be receiving weak signals.
Mine's been great, I absolutely love it. In fact I purchased a spare as I use mine on the go and I'm very worried about dropping and breaking it. I'd love to see you guys put some information out there, a video would be awesome, of best practices when using it portable away from wifi or cell service. I've had issues with mine a few times where I download the latest TLE on my wifi, then take it for a little drive away from the wifi and power it back up, log into the SAT, and confirm that the TLE on the device is the one I just downloaded. Then I go out to the field for a rove or whatever, power it up, and it's an old TLE and it's too far off and I've got to deal with the limited cell service to try to get it updated again. No idea why the old TLE pops back in, or why it does that sometimes but not always. Not sure if this is a bug or I simply don't understand what I"m doing. Help me understand what I should be doing to confidently take this awesome unit out into the field every time.
Thank you for the reply. You are correct. There are several different versions. I think I got it all set up but wasted my best pass of the day. 73s Ed WD8ED
Hello, thank you for all the helpful content🙏 Qq on my fresh g5500 it seems the elevation stop is hard set. I notice the marks on the housing are a bit past 90. Guessing this is normal? So take to the stop /zero and mount the antenna level is all i need todo? Thanks again.
Hi, I had to disable mine due to it appearing to be backwards for some SATS. My first pass after getting me stuff setup was on SO-50 and it was pointing opposite directions and down to the ground. After I disabled it worked fine. Any ideas?
I think your antenna is installed wrong. the antenna should never point to the ground. please see this video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V_ez-QFuGb8.html
Hi, the update looks great to be able to work with MLDX, however is this a firmware update (I am on 8.814) as I am not seeing the option shown for MLDX in the dropdown, also not seeing a firmware update being available?
You once told me that each unit was assembled on your kitchen table, now I see that. This is why the quality control is outstanding just as the finished product is. Great job, thanks for the video.
I recognize that guy (It's me). Mike, I'll take you up on your offer to demo it. I've spoken with a ham in Fla who is operating his 9700 remotely using SDR-Control and the S.A.T. controller. He is going to let me try his system over the internet from here in Ohio, and if it works like he says, I'll probably get one for the 9700. KB8CR
If you get to the point where you need some beta testing for Kenwood support, please let me know. I'm on RS-44 several times a week and prefer the TS-2000 over my Icoms. I would immediately purchase a SAT unit if support for the TS-2000 were added--even if that support was "beta". As a Linux user I've been running SATPC32 in a VM with great success, but I'd much rather use something that doesn't require me to maintain a Windows VM. @@csntechnologies2296
I second what KC0ECQ said. The S.A.T. controller by CSN Technologies is GREAT! And the customer service is the best I have ever experienced anywhere. Make satellite operations a great experience, get a S.A.T.
@@csntechnologies2296many thanks. I think my antivirus program was throwing a false positive. I managed to get a copy, scanned it and it was clean. I hope to get on the air in the next couple of days.
Hello Mike, Just received my S.A.T. today! (Thursday; I'm a "night owl", writing this at 2:25 AM Friday 😉). I ran into an issue with the rotator setup that I wanted to pass along in the event anyone else ran into the same problem. To start off with the problem was NOT with the S.A.T. controller; it was my rotator control box! When I went to set the maximum voltages as you described here, I saw that the elevation voltage properly came up to 4.6 volts, but no matter WHERE I moved the azimuth rotator the voltage stayed close to zero (just a few millivolts, regardless of the rotator position). Intially someone might wonder if the rotator cable to the S.A.T. was bad or a problem with the S.A.T. itself. As it was coming up on the time for me to head down to the local YMCA for my 3 times a week swim workout, so I dropped things at that point & headed down to the Y. Over the years, I've found that while counting off the laps (I usually swim at least a mile, 72 times across a 75 - foot pool), it's a good time to think over problems. 🤔 If you recall my original e-mail to you asking if the S.A.T. would work with my older KENPRO KR-5400A rotator, I thought to nyself, "What if the problem is in the rotator control box?". A few hours after getting back home, I checked out the rotator box. Fortunately, the original owner had included the instruction manual with it, which gave the DIN connector pinouts; Pin 1 was the elevation voltage output, which varied correctly with the elevation. Pin 6 was the voltage output, which as the S.A.T. readout said, was close to zero. Fortunately, when I was originally installing & testing the rotator, connecting & disconnecting the 12 separate wires at the screw terminals got old VERY quickly, so I had obtained some high - quality waterproof 12 pin connectors from Amazon; this literally made disconnecting the control box for a look inside a "snap"! ☺ This used rotator system was in pristine condition; internally, the controller looked like it had just come off the assembly line. The output voltage for both elevation & azimuth came through a couple of relatively simple op-amps with a pair of diodes after them; perhaps one of the diodes had shorted? But before I started tearing into it I decided (with the power off) to check the resistance to ground of both pins 6 & 1; they measured virtually identical (a few K), so that tended to rule out problems in that area. Then I started thinking, "What if the issue is with the voltage control pot?" I plugged the rotator cable back in, powered up the control box, & monitored pin 6 with a DVM while adjusting the output control pot. As SOON as I started adjusting the pot, the voltage immediately jumped up about 4.3 volts! 🤗 Playing with it a bit, it appears there was a bad spot right at the maximum end of the pot's track. Adjusted it to about 4.3 volts, then brought it up to about 4.6 with the trim pot on the S.A.T. After saving the maximum & minimum points as you described here, I went through the rest of the setup procedure; setting my location, setting up the radio (IC-9700), and downloading the satellite TLE's. Of the satellites I marked as favorites, the first upcoming pass was CAS-4B, which i knew wasn't active; but at the time of AOS, I went out into my backyard & was gratified to see the antenna system automatically adjust both azimuth & elevation as it passed overhead. 🤓 A pass of AO-73 (which was supposed to ba active) was due about 15 minutes or so after LOS from CAS-4B; although I didn't hear any other activity, I tried the "QUICK CW" function by sending a series of "V"s. Sure enough, I saw my signal coming back down on the IC-9700 spectrum display! 😁 I quickly adjusted the TX signal to match my received frequency, & was delighted to hear my voice coming back strongly on SSB! - AND staying that way until just a few minutes before LOS! 😎(No QSO's though because most of the "sane" operators were in bed!). 😌 Again, my main intention here is to alert you & any other owners of older rotators to MAKE SURE that the rotator control box is ACTUALLY outputting the elevation & azimuth voltages before blaming the S.A.T. Looking forward to having a LOT of fun 😀with this! 73, Tom WA1LBK
My waterfall is blank. When I change the soundmodem input to microphone, the waterfall shows the ambient room noise. But when I switch back to usb audio from the 9700 I see nothing. It’s like the input gain from the usb is set to zero, but it’s set to 100%. I’m baffled.
Check Menu>Connectors>USB AF/IF Output and make sure it is set to AF also Menu>connectors>MOD Input>DATA MOD and set it to USB. Be sure you use USB-D as Mode for the VFO
Width is automatic for AFSK GMSK you just need to aim for a CF of 1500hz and you can slide the BPF to 1500hz in soundmodem. In soundmodem there is also a small data entry window with up and down
Why is there a 300 Hz differential between TX and RX plus 60 Hz RIT. Not surre I understand the TX differential off of published frequency? Or how to derermine? Seems a 300 Hz error would make the difference between gettin in or not. And Ive been on several passes with zero luck.
I know it seems counter intuitive to have different freqs/doppler correction for uplink and downlink but it must be that way. At some point in the pass there can be several Khz difference. The published frequencies do not take into account doppler correction. Its a matter of perspective either you are on the ground or on the satellite so the doppler is different for TX and RX. It took me a while to understand that. The RIT was just a small correction and I was just lazy to add it to the initial RX frequency.
@@FrankG-ob3xs I have a friend who is occasionally successful with IO-117 using HRD for TX control and hand on the RIT knob to visually correct RX. He says the differential across a pass can be as much as 11 kHz. What is the math for that one might ask? That seems to imply that we may be shooting blind on TX more or less, and using a fixed value for RIT means there may be only one point in a given pass where both sides are actially working correctly.
I don’t remember the offset being that much? You’re like to see the first reception on 435.113mhz and the last will be on 435.107mhz. That’s just 6khz for a satellite that can be 10,000km away apogee.
The published centre frequency is 435.310MHz - in the video his Rx is set to 435.309 and his Tx is set to 435.309.3 (plus the weird RIT) before doppler correction. Obviously during the pass the frequencies shift apart depending on where the satellite is and its direction/speed in relation to your station and in order to stay tuned in automatic doppler correction on both Rx and Tx needs to be calculated and applied. @ehresmanr - I am in the same boat as you did you manage to fix your problem? I can decode just fine I think I have my levels set correctly. I'm using Gpredict and have my ic-9700 on split. I think I'm just not finding the right transmit frequency. Watching the video seems to imply that his Rx and Tx are locked together and once he has his Rx coming through starting at 800 on the sound modem waterfall then the TX is also correct, but 300Hz +/- doppler from the Rx … Don't know haven't been successful yet
Soundmodem is decoding the packets but not getting anything on the Greencube Terminal. Ports etc. are setup but still no joy. Also, on the bottom of the Terminal screen it says "Digipeater off" even during a pass. Please advise. 73 Jack WB6LAU. It also says Soundmodem connected.
Hello Frank, I have a problem. My 9700 doesn't show a codec for the input device. So I am not hearing anything. My transmit shows Speakers 12-usb Audio Codec. But there is no USB -12 audiocodec on the input device. The com port is good I can transmit from Green Cube Terminal. Any ideas?
fixed that. no0t decoding. I have the com port right and I have the ports the same in both Green cube terminal and also Sound Modem. My question is, how do you know what port it should be?
Everything on the SAT is the same. You will see new frequencies and you must fine tune as you did for IO-117. Be sure you select LEDSAT on the terminal program and the soundmodem is the same one you use for IO-117.
I have been using this program for a long time. Thanks for putting out this clear explanation. It will help a lot of people to understand the telemetry. I usually have the graph set to monitor RSSI (signal strength) with the line graph.
