Re: [amsat-bb] Poor man's AO-40 Portable Rotor

[Andrew Glasbrenner <glasbrenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have...It works well. If you use a dish that is wider than it is tall, like a primestar, the small elevation error make even less difference.

73, Drew KO4MA

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Acito W1PA <w1pa@hotmail.com>
Sent: Jan 13, 2004 1:08 PM
To: amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Poor man's AO-40 Portable Rotor

Has anyone tried anything like this?
http://webpages.charter.net/acito/tripod_rotor.jpg

Mounting a cheap TV rotor in the plane of a AO-40 pass...  based on a quick
look at the "radar" view in Nova, this should be usable from MA 35 to 235
(before AO-40 appears to retrograde).

The idea would be a inexpensive, small, one cable motion control of a small
U/S set-up mounted on a camera tripod without having to stand at the tripod
with a long headphone cable (not an issue for those of you in warmer
climates, but in New England it's going down to 5 and 10 below tonight...
manual control of the rotor, tweaking for max noise/sig.

Just a thought. Comments?

Bill
W1PA
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