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
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.
>