Thank you for getting this for me to hear. I did not hare anyone replying to me. I'm just getting back into the Sats. I won't do the Cq Cq Cq anymore (thanks for the tip hi hi) I'm working on the antenna setup. I need a better mast and adding a rotor. I have 120' trees all around me so it's quite a challenge.
Time to check out your setup, on receive. Antenna, coax (type and length), squelch wide open on sub VFO for downlink, ... ? Your station had no problems coming through, and even with the low pass I had in northern Arizona on Saturday night I had no problems hearing you - and even seeing your call sign. You don't always get the call signs on the screen with every transmission when working through AO-27, as you could see in that video, and other videos of AO-27 D-Star activity at:
http://www.youtube.com/va7ewk If you are working AO-27 and transmitting in DV, the sub VFO will mute when it receives a D-Star signal. You really can't work AO-27 full-duplex in D-Star with just an ID-5100 (the IC-9700 is the only D-Star capable of cross-band full-duplex operation in D-Star), but I usually go by seeing "MUTE" on the sub VFO to know I'm getting through. And, sometimes, I'll even see my own call sign on the sub VFO side of the screen when transmitting. An example of that can be seen in this short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAMWuCax4bwThis shows transmissions through AO-27 in FM and D-Star. I change the mode on the main VFO, but don't have to change the mode on the sub VFO (it stays in DV, and I enabled "DV Auto Detect" so the sub VFO can also receive FM traffic).
Have you seen this thread on QRZ?
https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/icom-id-5100-for-fm-satellites-and-d-star-via-ao-27.755389/More about using the ID-5100 on FM satellites, and especially on AO-27 in D-Star.
73!