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Excellent 👌 great video looking to bring back APRS to the Florida Keys.

where do you send out a beacon text

Been waiting for a few years for this. Looking forward to when it gets onto the website. When will it be available?

Another common igate feature is when a message is addressed to a call that the igate sees on RF, it will forward the APRSERVE message to RF to essentially “find me” since I’m on RF with my D72 for example.

Is it possible to setup my call to beacon to RF when a position report is heard via the internet? That was a feature of many IGate programs. It allows people watching the local network via RF to see my igated packets.

When will this be available? Or has it already been released?? 73 Danny NF4J

Excellent!

Fantastic, can't wait to see this come out in kit or open source form. Who needs Meshtastic, we got old school APRS packet radio!

Any ETA?

What does it do?

My controller yaesu G5500 terminal 4-5 pin coming 31voltage .... Can i run the motor at this voltage or not

When i plug in the controller fuse hase damage what is the problem can you help me for this....i am from india and in india here rated voltage in house is 220-240

Very helpful!

Thank you for this video. About how long is your crossbar?

Can someone tell me please, Is the Icom 9700 the only radio that works with this system? Are there any Yaesu radios that are compatible?

I have done both. Worked great with my Starlink, and also have used it with no internet. Just did as you recommended. Updated before leaving home for the weekend

Can this work with an Icom 7100? I'm looking to use it in conjunction with an sdrplay for receiving as a 9700 is currently out of my reach financially.

Thank you for the video, verty helpful.

Did you have to do any modification to the stand to make it work with the stand. Thanks for the vid. Also, any support for Yaesu FT-991A?

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!

Wish it would work with a Flex radio.

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!

This is a great piece of equipment for a satellite station. Makes everything a lot easier.

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.

Is there a reason that Greencube modem is not in the current distribution of soundmodem?

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?

What tripod are you using??

what tripod is your G5500 on? I'm in the process of putting together a portable station like you are using.

Does this work with a Flex 6600 using transverters?

should these settings be for CI-V Data instead of just CI-V?

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?

Awesome !!

Thanks...just got mine in the mail today and you got me up and running.

That sounds pretty cool!

Love the device with my 9700, easy tracking.

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.

Now I know what is inside the magic box haha

Please no yellow boards anymore it’s hideous

Thank you, great explanation, and CSN is a highly recommended tracker.

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

Is there ever going to support for the Kenwood TS-2000?

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.

I love my SAT!! Best Customer Service of any company in any industry. 73!

Is there a mirror site to try to download GreenTNC

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.

Auto repeater is not available in the european Version of the IC-9700!

where are the bandpass freqs of 800-2100 entered. BPF width txbpf width lpf width ???