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June 2013

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wanted: to borrow or buy a Yaesu G-5500 AZ-EL controller and rotor
by David Bern 03 Jun '13

03 Jun '13

Friends: I am working on a summer project with students at Montgomery College, Rockville. The project is to design and build a device that controls a pair of inexpensive satellite TV rotors. And the device would emulate a popular AZ-EL rotor such as a Yaesu G-5500 AZ-EL controller so it can be used by a satellite tracking program such as SatPC32. Tom, K3IO suggested this project at the last AMSAT-DC workshop and is guiding us with this project. I would like to borrow a Yaesu G-5500 AZ-EL controller and rotor for about three months or buy a used one so we can study and understand its command protocol. I will pick up or pay for shipping. Please contact David, W2LNX directly at W2LNX(a)amsat.org Thank you, David, W2LNX

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Re: wanted: to borrow or buy a Yaesu G-5500 AZ-EL controller and rotor
by Daniel Schultz 02 Jun '13

02 Jun '13

Only if you have the source code and are able to rewrite and recompile it every time a new operating system comes out. Dan Schultz N8FGV ------ Original Message ------ Received: Sun, 02 Jun 2013 06:53:40 AM EDT From: David Bern <David.Bern(a)engineer.com> To: Louis Mamakos WA3YMH <louie(a)transsys.com>Cc: AMSAT-DC mailing list <amsat-dc(a)amsat.org> Subject: [amsat-dc] Re: wanted: to borrow or buy a Yaesu G-5500 AZ-EL controller and rotor > Correction: I told them that hardware comes and goes but software is > forever. >

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