[K3PZN-List] Club Station

[Andy Leeds]

I had a little time today and did some prep for field day at the club 
station.

The IC-756 has headsets and foot switch hooked up. I'm proposing we use 
that rig for the SSB station since I've got that part done. As a side 
note I worked Scotland on 20M PSK31 while I was checking all the audio 
levels and connections (so in 8 years when we get the QSL card....).

The vhf/uhf ICOM twins are now connected to PC6. I used multi-psk to 
connect to the BBS so I'm pretty confident that if I got packet to work 
the other digital modes will work. I hooked the diplexer into the 
antenna and found the mystery vertical on the tower loads about 1.2:1 on 
445.875, up to about 1.8:1 by 446.000, so its at least usable on UHF. A 
copy of the rig manual is on the desktop of PC6. To set CTSS (PL) tone 
on these rigs, press and hold the "Sel" button (next to "Tone") and 
rotate the tuning dial to select the tone. A chart is on the wall that 
maps the tone number to frequency. Let go of Sel when you've got the 
desired tone set, then press the Tone button an the amber tone light on 
the display will come on.

TS-850 now has a rig control cable connected, this provides only limited 
control - band and mode only but that's enough to drive the logging 
software so that the software always matches the rig.

TS-870 - replaced the dead batteries in the desk mic. Otherwise nothing 
changed here.

I'll send another email to start a Field Day planning thread....

Andy