[amsat-bb] Re: inquiry about homebrew az-el systems

[Thomas Doyle]

Gus,

Check this out.

http://www.tomdoyle.org/simplesattracker/SimpleSatTracker.html

73 W9KE tom...

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Gus <8p6sm at anjo.com> wrote:

> I think AMSAT-UK even has software available.
>
> And with the addition of a bit of EEPROM, you could even pre-load the
> controller with ephemeris data for several satellites for several days in
> advance.  Emergency / field-day / portable operation without needing a
> computer.
>
> Add a bluetooth module and an Android app, and you could have an all
> singing, all dancing, full-featured satellite station in a briefcase.
>
> I'D buy one...
>
> On 02/23/2013 10:01 PM, Lizeth Norman wrote:
>
>> Samudra and the gang,
>> The bee's knees would be an Arduino Mega 2560 talking over one of it's
>> serial ports to the pc. Using the output of the Orbitron (or insert
>> your fave rave software here) DDE server to drive the microcontroller.
>> There are enough digital/analog pins to drive/slave anything from
>> there.
>> Simple serial port setup. Repeatable. Extensible. The chip has several
>> other HARDWARE (i.e has it's own hardware buffers for i/o) serial
>> ports for more and more fun stuff.
>> Have a look on youtube or google for code to drive steppers / selsyns..
>> Norm n3ykf
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