When one is using an arrow antenna and an armstrong rotator to work one of the birds, how does one have any idea where to have the antenna pointed when and what movements to make to keep it pointed? It's a big sky up there.
Eric KG6KQT
Most of the popular tracking programs allow you to print out a table of az/el values for a defined time step for any given satellite... before I went to computer-controlled rotors I used the tables provided by Instant Track. You can also guesstimate where to point if you know the AOS position, LOS position, and max elevation, and peak the signal with a little waving and twisting.
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Fort" eric.fort@gmail.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:51 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] armstrong antenna pointing
When one is using an arrow antenna and an armstrong rotator to work one of the birds, how does one have any idea where to have the antenna pointed when and what movements to make to keep it pointed? It's a big sky up there.
Eric KG6KQT
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