[amsat-bb] Azimuth Only Rotator with SatPC32?

[John Kludt]

Ron,

Sure give it a try.  Mount the Arrow at 30 deg elevation and you should be
good to go.  The only dwon side is the same downside of solid mounting an
Arrow on anything.  with a handheld Arrow you will always see people
rotating it around the axis of the boom for maximum signal strength on
receive   The on transmit they will rotate their hand to get the transmit
elements in about the same plane as the recieve elements were for mx
signal.  So you will loose a bit of signal.  If you already have the TV
rotator, give it a go.  The other thing to watch is your feedline.
Depending on length you might want to consider at least LMR 400.  If it is
long given the feedline losses at 432 MHz, LMR 600 if you can find it
cheaply enough is even better.

Hope that helps,

John

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:59 PM ronald mosher <
outlook_29386768CB4020AF at outlook.com> wrote:

> I am going to build an Az/El rotator, but that will take a while.  In the
> meantime, I'm wondering whether I could control an unused TV rotator
> (Channel Master 9521) with the SatPC32 as an Az only rotator for my single
> Arrow antenna.  Any suggestions?
> Ron K0PGE
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