[amsat-bb] Trakbox Substitute

[Mike Sprenger]

Enzo

I presented yesterday at Tampa Hamfest AMSAT forum K3NG's Anthony Good's arduino controller 

I've built 6 of these things, they work great:

https://blog.radioartisan.com/yaesu-rotator-computer-serial-interface/

It's almost as much effort to get the 2 line display hooked up as it is to get the 2 sense lines from the controller and the 4 (up/dn/lt/rt) drive lines.  I've never put buttons on one for up down left right because there's already buttons on the g5400

  I have built them without display also, just have to use a terminal emulator to connect and query the measured position)

Get the yaesu GS232 manual for the command listing.  That's what it's emulating. 

Did I say it can be quite inexpensive to use an arduino?   Lots of fun and satisfying to build too. 

Thanks,
Mike
W4UOO 

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> On Dec 11, 2016, at 8:58 AM, Vincenzo Mone <vimone at alice.it> wrote:
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> Hi folks,
> 
> is there anything that does what trakbox does that can substitute it?
> 
> I mean something that tracks the satellite moving automatically the rotators
> and 
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> The radio frequencies?
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> Thanks
> 
> Enzo
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> 
> 
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