[amsat-bb] Re: Kansas City Tracker unknown parts...

George Henry ka3hsw at earthlink.net
Thu Jan 24 19:22:44 PST 2008


I seem to recall that those jumpers were for use with certain rotors, 
possibly those with relays?  I would have to dig the KCT documentation out 
of the garage, and it's below zero here right now...

George, KA3HSW


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry" <n1miw at cox.net>
To: <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 6:38 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] Kansas City Tracker unknown parts...


>   Hello everyone! I use the KCT to control my rotor, which works fine.
> However... I was looking through the junk drawer tonight, and found the
> original anti-static bag which has two 14 pin IC-style jumper boards 
> inside.
> One of them has only 2 jumpers - one between pins 1 & 3, the other jumper
> between pins 4 & 6. These are both made with blue wire. The other IC block
> has a solder bridge between pins 2 & 3 and 5 & 6. Did these come with the
> board in its early stages of design? Does it even belong with the KCT? 
> Just
> curious what these are for. I don't recall reading in the manual about 
> them,
> either (tracker OR tuner). TIA... Larry  N1MIW FN41
>
> 



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