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

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@anjo.com mailto:8p6sm@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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