Diy Satellite Antenna Rotor

Testing out the camera platform with a bit of load both azimuth and elevation.

Diy satellite antenna rotor.

We demonstrated the mini satellite antenna rotator mk1 to the south east radio group on june 10 2018. Handheld elk 2m 440l5 dual band log periodic antenna used with kenwood th d74a or baofeng uv 5r. We demonstrated the mini satellite antenna rotator mk2 at the wireless institute of australia agm on may 21 2017. I have just finished building a diy controller as part of a home brewed antenna rotator project.

Project home rotor microcontroller motor controller yaesu g 5500 software virtual g 5500 ipoint. Antenna for portable satellite. Some readers asked us if the rotator could be scaled up for a larger permanent satellite antenna installation at home. Duty rotator is intended for small handheld arrow and elk class satellite antennas and can be used to receive fox satellite signals.

2 my target audience includes school groups wraps. I have added an optional speaker for audible feedback to view. It won first choice of the. Manuel has also created a blog post about his antenna rotator which includes a full parts list and a link to all the files.

This is a short video of al s portable harbor freight flag pole with 12v motor as rotator and dual band 2m 144mhz 70cm 440mhz jet stream beam antenna f. The controller allows simple clockwise and counterclockwise movement of the stepper motor using 4 buttons. The wraps az el rotator system mounts on a camera tripod. The motor may be replaced with a larger one depending on the intended load.

We presented and demonstrated the mini satellite antenna rotator mk2 at gippstech 2017 on july 1 2017. Building a diy az el antenna rotator for satellite tracking over on his youtube channel tysonpower a k a manuel has uploaded a video showing a demonstration of his home made antenna rotator. It is very light duty and can only be used with a small dual band hand held antenna. Diy az el antenna rotator for under 150 林森 bh1lhs on twitter satellite mechanical antennas and oz1bxm arduino rf hamdesign spid diy az el antenna rotator for under 150 tysonpower de 林森 bh1lhs on twitter diy antenna rotator hamradio antenna rotator satellite antenna rotator mechanical system hackaday io diy az el antenna rotator for read more.

The goals for the rotor project were completely scratch built no tv rotor conversion rugged robust construction low cost relatively easy to construct strong enough to handle a pair of small beam antennas such as the elk 2m 440l5 and 440l8 arrow antennas would probably work but i do not.