Anyone in the #amateurradio hobby installed an IF panadapter before? Just put one in a Yaesu FT-847, it's nice having a waterfall display, and with CAT control I even have the SDR software changing the radio frequency when I click on the waterfall.

#hamradio #yaesu #sdrplusplus #rigctld

Did some more experiments with #SSTV this afternoon.

This time, using #QSSTV. Not sure why, but modulation is well down. Receive is fine. The command I used last time is fine too. Just QSSTV is "low".

I had to also make up my own #rigctld implementation, enough to fool QSSTV into thinking it was the real deal, so I could use that to control the GPIO pin on the UDRC-II for PTT. This is hacky and nasty, but it's enough to trick QSSTV.

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sjlongland/b3a579d4c702b967884b7a648de08bd7/raw/879f63b1612eca8fd4ee4c5027f2b285f13fcc63/dummyrigctld.py

Well today trying to receive the #ISS #SSTV experiment yielded nothing to be heard on 437.800MHz over #PF95. and one the passes was 60°+ in the sky. 😿

my setup was FT-857D, X50M antenna, digirig, laptop for hardware side. Software had #rigctld, #gpredict interfaced with rigctld to control the doppler, and #QSSTV to do the decode of the signal.

#hamradio #digital