[OZAPRS] HF APRS with an FT 857D and Kantronics KP3

[Mark Austin]

Shaun,
Had much the same problem with an OT2 two week ago, the XYL has almost
forgiven me, almost!. You note the AGL is 0 at a dig gain of 45. My
problem ended up being the radio. My 857 settings are,

Mem 36=0
Mem 37=4  (yes that's 4, but the OT2 audio was set to flat out.)
Mem 38=psk31-u
Mem 39=0

But the all important bit I was missing was the RTTY AGL setup. Page
63 of the manual, from point 4 (the last line on the page) to point 9
on page 64. The only other issue was the tone set. The OT2 uses
2110/2310 on HF not 1600/1800 so the radio is set to 10147.09.

Good luck,
Mark

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Shaun <shaunbaby at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> OK, fixed this up to: Do use the following TNC settings for your success.
> TXDelay 400ms, PACket LENgth 128, SLOTtime 300ms PERsistance 64ms.
>
> And noted 10min BLT not 2min for VHF as per below
>
> Shaun
>
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:41:19 Shaun wrote:
>> Been trying to get this to work all day, much to the annoyance of the XYL.
>>
>> Interface is working to the 857, which is set to DIG PSK31U on 10.147.6.
>> ALG is not indicating with DIG gain at 45.
>>
>> Problem is I don't have a second radio to hear myself. I tested initally on
>> 2m with a HH to hear what was happening and all seemed fine.
>>
>> Used this to set up the TNC :
>> http://www.aprs.net.au/category/national-categories/configuration.
>>
>> Can anyone see anything I have done that I am missing?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Shaun VK2XPP
>>
>> p.s. BLT is set to 30sec for the purpose of testing only.  It will be up at
>> 2min or more as recomended by the APRS.net once all is hunky dory.
>>
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