The lack of manual tuning when under computer control is a fundamental
limitation of the rig. When it switches to CAT mode, the front panel is
disabled. Nothing an external box can do to change this.
For the FM sats, full computer control is still possible, since all you
need is to stay on the single Doppler-adjusted frequency. It is
definitely an annoyance when working the SSB/CW sats, however, but I
find that operating the good old fashioned way (manually) still works
well enough. Possibly easier than setting up two rigs, depending on
your setup.
The NORmal and REVerse tracking settings of the SAT mode switch really
helps here. All you need to do is find yourself in some quiet part of
the transponder passband, then switch to the tracking setting for your
particular bird. (I believe they're all Reverse at the present time.)
Then you can spin the knob to find a QSO, and join in. You'll remain
close to the right tuning for a few minutes (except at TCA), and can
adjust real-time once you start talking by taking it out of tracking and
over to either Tx or Rx (generally whichever band is higher).
Not too hard once you do it a few times.
Good luck, and enjoy the rig,
Greg KO6TH
Tom Worthington wrote:
Thanks for all the responses on the FT-736 and the pointers to the pic
hardware emulator.
Just to be clear, does the N6BIL emulator allow the manual tuning of the
FT-736?
It would seem that the lack of the ability to tune is a significant problem
to making contacts.
73 and Aloha, Tom, NH6 Y
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