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FT-857D RX frequency increments for satellites with identical RX and TX frequencies #326

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kconkas opened this issue Mar 13, 2023 · 11 comments

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kconkas commented Mar 13, 2023

This may be related to #294 . I am trying to use gpredict for greencube. To define both the uplink and downlink frequencies, I added the following section to ~/.config/Gpredict/trsp/53106.trsp:

[Mode U GMSK FULL DUPLEX]
DOWN_LOW=435310000
UP_LOW=435310000
MODE=FSK AX.100 Mode 5
BAUD=1200

I defined a rig for this as "FT817/857/897 (auto)" with PTT Status set to "Read PTT". Its .rig file is as follows:

[Radio]
Host=localhost
Port=4533
LO=0
LO_UP=0
Type=4
PTT=1
SIGNAL_AOS=false
SIGNAL_LOS=false

My problem is when I start tracking the satellite and click "Engage", at first everything is normal; both the Downlink and Uplink radio frequencies get updated regularly:
Screenshot from 2023-03-13 18-01-38

After about 7-8 seconds, both the Downlink and Uplink radio frequencies get set to the same (Uplink) frequency and my Downlink frequency automatically shifts up. From this point onwards, my Downlink radio frequency tracks the Uplink radio frequency.
Screenshot from 2023-03-13 18-01-43

Fedora 37, gpredict 2.2.1, hamlib-4.5.4.

@kconkas kconkas changed the title FT-857D RX frequency increments for APRS satellites FT-857D RX frequency increments for simplex satellites Mar 13, 2023
@kconkas kconkas changed the title FT-857D RX frequency increments for simplex satellites FT-857D RX frequency increments for satellites with identical RX and TX frequencies Mar 13, 2023
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mdblack98 commented Mar 13, 2023 via email

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kconkas commented Mar 15, 2023

Thanks for the suggestion @mdblack98 . I built hamlib from its current github snapshot (commit 24a4a094843c5c149be76277a9ab3704b8b097b7) and I saw a few of your FT-857 fixes in the commit log. Unfortunately, the behaviour reported in this bug is still present. I'd appreciate any suggestions from anyone who may have got this working.

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mdblack98 commented Mar 15, 2023 via email

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Also....try my fork and add "--vfo" to your rigctld command line. VFO mode is much better for gpredict usage.
https://github.com/mdblack98/gpredict

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kconkas commented Mar 15, 2023

@mdblack98 please find the log below. This is with your fork of gpredict, latest snapshot of hamlib and rigctld used with the --vfo option.
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Doesn't look like you were using my fork of gpredict as it is not using the --vfo option correctly. My fork does work with --vfo.

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kconkas commented Mar 17, 2023

@mdblack98 I built both from source code. Is there anything that needs setting up in gpredict to make it work?

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mdblack98 commented Mar 17, 2023 via email

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kconkas commented Mar 19, 2023

@mdblack98 this is the 1st line in the output I'd attached previously:

2023-03-15T22:50:02.471865-0000: rigctld.c(660) Startup: /usr/local/bin/rigctld -r /dev/ttyUSB11 -t 4533 -s 9600 -m 1022 --vfo -vvvvv -Z

Is this what you meant or is it somewhere else I should've added --vfo to?

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mdblack98 commented Mar 19, 2023 via email

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zyg0121 commented Dec 5, 2023

I found the same problem today. Wanna know how to solve it...

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