Doug and Alan,
The LVB Tracker II will do the same as well. From what I read, to convert a
LVB tracker 1 to a LVB tracker II, it requires
a Eprom change and new software load.
http://www.g6lvb.com/Articles/LVBTracker2/index.htm
73,
Angelo
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If you don't ask, you will never know!!
> From: apbid...@united.net
> To: fa...@panix.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org
> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 06:14:47 -0600
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Looking for a G3RUH dish
>
> Doug,
>
> FODTRACK does have a GPS input for the location.
>
> http://ludens.cl/Electron/fodtrack/fodtrack.html
>
> Note that it is a VERY old, DOS program, but according to the web page, with
> some effort will work with Vista and presumably WIN7. FWIW
>
> Alan
> WA4SCA
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-boun...@amsat.org] On
> Behalf Of Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 12:39 AM
> To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Looking for a G3RUH dish
>
> Speaking of which, can any of the available amateur software packages
> handle a moving ground station? I'd like to be able to automate the
> antenna tracking on a boat.
>
> 73, doug
>
>
> On 05-Jan-12 05:55, Greg D. wrote:
> >
> > Hi Bob,
> >
> > I'm trying to visualize you driving (bouncing) down the freeway at 70 mph
> with a square yard of curved (airfoil!) metal sitting at odd angles to the
> air flow, trying to aim it at a target you may not be able to see clearly,
> which is also moving at some rate in another direction, with an accuracy of
> +/- a half dozen degrees (which is what you get with a dish that size). I
> had a hard enough time aiming my 30 inch BBQ grill at AO-40, from my nearly
> stationary house (this is California, after all), with up to date KEPS, a
> rotor system calibrated earlier against the position of the Sun, NBS-sync'd
> clock on a Linux PC, and so forth.
> >
> > Even if you mount the dish inside a camper minivan with a fiberglass roof
> (think mobile Radome), I don't see how this is going to work. I've seen you
> do amazing things, but what are you thinking?
> >
> > The best use of the dish would probably be to catch the balloon payload as
> it falls from the sky...
> >
> > Greg KO6TH
> >
> >
> >> From: bruni...@usna.edu
> >> To: k...@aol.com; amsat-bb@amsat.org
> >> Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:54:02 -0500
> >> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Looking for a G3RUH dish
> >>
> >>> Regarding your Cu wire dish... you might look at
> >>> the Tek Sharp dishes as an easier alternative to "rolling your own."
> >>
> >> We are after absolute minimum wind drag. I don't think the Tek dish
> would
> >> survive accurate tracking while driving along the interstate at 70 PMPH
> to
> >> catch a balloon. And we want it to be a good 3' by 4' dish... Need the
> >> gain for the tiny wifi video link...
> >>
> >> Bob
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I picked one up on ebay about a year ago and put it in my attic...
> waiting
> >> for amsat-dl :-)
> >>
> >> http://www.plumdragon.com/teksharp/hr_AO-40_products.htm
> >>
> >> Drew,
> >> I have a spare PF dish about 60 cm, but it is steel, not aluminum like
> the
> >> G3RUH. I used it on AO-40 for 24 GHz. Let me know off-list if you want
> it.
> >>
> >> 73,
> >> Jerry, K5OE
> >>
> >> ---- previous message ----
> >> You probably have one of the K5GNA "BBQ" dishes. The G3RUH is a solid
> round
> >> spun dish.
> >>
> >> 73, Drew
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Bob Bruninga<bruni...@usna.edu>
> >>> Sent: Jan 3, 2012 2:19 PM
> >>> To: 'Andrew Glasbrenner'<glasbren...@mindspring.com>, 'amsat-bb'
> >>> <amsat-bb@amsat.org>
> >>> Subject: RE: [amsat-bb] Looking for a G3RUH dish
> >>>
> >>>> I'm looking for one of the 60cm G3RUH dishes
> >>>
> >>> Got one, (but not available).
> >>>
> >>> Questions: I measured reflector grid separation as .88 inches which
> works
> >>> out to be about 0.18 wavelength. I always thought the grid had to be
> >>> tighter than 0.1 inches to be an effective "surface".
> >>>
> >>> Maybe the difference with almost double the spacing is not that
> >> significant?
> >>> (especially for a steel one which would be quite heavy.
> >>>
> >>> Reason I am asking is that I also need another S band dish (at 70 MPH on
> >> the
> >>> roof of a tracking van) and we are thinking about building one by using
> an
> >>> old solid 6' TVRO dish as a form and laying in copper wire and soldering
> it
> >>> to copper straps. With all that labor, I'd not want to get the spacing
> >>> wrong.
> >>>
> >>> Bob, Wb4APR
> >>>
> >>
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