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Steve
开云体育Thanks for letting me join. I recently got a FT-60 to work the LEO satellites. I didn't get a programming cable but managed to put in all the uplink and downlink frequencies for SO-50 and AO-85 on "split" memory channels. I added the CTCSS tone successfully on the first three SO-50 channels with some difficulty, but have failed on the rest, using exactly the same procedure of selecting "tone" [PTT] and then "67 Hz" [F/W}. The little "T" box goes away when I change channels. I've followed the instructions carefully and repeated it many times. Maybe someone can try it on their own FT and then walk me through it.? 73, Steve JS6TMW in Okinawa, Japan |
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Larry Kilbride
Hi Steve sorry I am. Ot smart enough to help. Just saw where you are from and wanted to say hi. Last time I was in Okinawa I was with MCAF.
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SemperFi On Monday, December 26, 2016, 4:34 PM, Steve sumpn4u53@... [FT-60] wrote:
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开云体育Resave the channel after making changes.? Jardy Dawson WA7JRD Ham Radio On Dec 26, 2016, at 16:34, Steve sumpn4u53@... [FT-60] <FT-60@...> wrote:
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Thanks for letting me join. I recently
got a FT-60 to work the LEO satellites. I didn't get a programming
cable but managed to put in all the uplink and downlink frequencies
for SO-50 and AO-85 on "split" memory channels. I added the CTCSS
tone successfully on the first three SO-50 channels with some
difficulty, but have failed on the rest, using exactly the same
procedure of selecting "tone" [PTT] and then "67 Hz" [F/W}. The
little "T" box goes away when I change channels. I've followed the
instructions carefully and repeated it many times. Maybe someone can
try it on their own FT and then walk me through it.? 73, Steve
JS6TMW in Okinawa, Japan |
开云体育First you have to turn on 'Tone' (F1), then pick the tone freq (F2), then save in same memory slot. Jardy Dawson WA7JRD Ham Radio On Dec 26, 2016, at 21:02, sumpn4u53@... [FT-60] <FT-60@...> wrote:
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That doesn't work either. I think the problem is a factory default tone setting of 88.5 Hz (all repeaters in Japan), which I have not found any way to override, even with Set Menu 50.?? 73, Steve |
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Steve
开云体育Thanks Jardy. That is what I've been doing, and the "T" comes on for the channel while I am still using that channel but it reverts to either no tone or 88.5 as soon as I leave it. The channels I thought I had set to 67 were actually back to 88.5. The transmit power setting also reverts to LOW. I did manage to almost make a satellite QSO this afternoon by manually resetting the tone and power each time I shifted the receive frequency. Doable but not something I want to live with!JS6TMW |
开云体育You have to save the new settings to the same memory channel you are using, otherwise the changes are in VFO only. ?When you changes channels and go back, there is no choice but to use the old settings because you have not resaved the changes. Jardy Dawson WA7JRD Ham Radio On Dec 27, 2016, at 04:01, Steve sumpn4u53@... [FT-60] <FT-60@...> wrote:
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Thanks Jardy. That is what I've been doing, and
the "T" comes on for the channel while I am still using that
channel but it reverts to either no tone or 88.5 as soon as I
leave it. The channels I thought I had set to 67 were actually
back to 88.5. The transmit power setting also reverts to LOW. I
did manage to almost make a satellite QSO this afternoon by
manually resetting the tone and power each time I shifted the
receive frequency. Doable but not something I want to live with! |
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Steve
开云体育I found out what the rig is doing, but am not what I am doing!!!I did a complete reset so had only empty channels. So now I see that sometimes when I think I have saved the tone data to the channel I had set, it actually saved everything to a higher channel, which I guess is the "first available channel" that the clever microprocessor finds. I finally got a full set of 6 satellite frequencies by deleting channels until only the correctly saved ones were in order. That will work for me for the time being since I can roll through them in order during a pass. Since some of my channel settings were correctly saved and others were not, I must have not been consistent in how I was saving the input information. Can hardly wait until my new programming cable comes in the mail!!! Steve in Okinawa JS6TMW |
开云体育When you go to save the new info to the existing channel, look to see what channel number you are modifying. ?If the channel number is flashing, that is the next open channel. ?Rotate the dial back to the other number, then save it. ?The FT-60 is absolutely the easiest handheld to manually program. I believe in the Files section, Cliff had put a one page cheat sheet that shows the steps. ?For computer programming, you can use FT-60 Commander software (free), , CHIRP (free), google it, or RT Systems (expensive, but good). Jardy Dawson WA7JRD Ham Radio On Dec 28, 2016, at 07:15, Steve sumpn4u53@... [FT-60] <FT-60@...> wrote:
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I found out what the rig is doing, but am not
what I am doing!!! |
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Steve
开云体育"When you go to save the new info to the existing channel, look to see what channel number you are modifying. If the channel number is flashing, that is the next open channel. Rotate the dial back to the other number, then save it."Ahh, that is indeed the information I've been looking for. It's so easy once you know how. Too bad that simple sentence doesn't appear in the manual.? 73,? Steve JS6TMW |
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Great little HT! I made a bunch of contacts last night on SO-50. I modified my antenna for working duplex (with the Baofeng as transmitter) and on a very low pass today I heard my own signal faint and scratchy as I keyed it. Hope to master that system because the sat can get very busy at times. Will try a fairly good AO-85 pass in a few minutes.
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