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

[Gus]

Thanks, Tom!


On 02/24/2013 10:22 AM, Thomas Doyle wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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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>     73, de Gus 8P6SM
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73, de Gus 8P6SM
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