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

["Tim Zibrat" <tzibrat@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My only advise is to use wireless headphones (900 MHz of course).  This made
adjusting my armstrong system much easier to manage because of the 50 foot
distance between my shack and the driveway!  That is until I finally got my
AZ-EL system up (mostly all used and fairly cheap I might add).

-K3TZ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org 
> [mailto:owner-AMSAT-BB@AMSAT.Org] On Behalf Of Bill Acito W1PA
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 1:09 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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