At 10:22 AM 9/8/2012, James Luhn wrote:
Please don't ya'll laugh too hard at me. Has anyone ever mounted a camera on a beam? Now I am not trying to see AO40, but I would like to simply double check the location of my beam for eme.
I saw (many years ago), pictures of video cameras mounted on the edge of an eme dish for just this purpose. I also remember (from some amsat meeting) a picture of someome's shack which had a TV monitor with the moon in the center of it.
Only concern i'd have is that a TV camera is an electronic device, which generates EMI. Mounting such a thing so close to your antennas may cause some or possibly a huge amount of interference. I'd suggest making sure you can cut power to the camera remotely, and also can disconnect the cable that carries the TV signal down to the shack. Whether that cable is a coax or an ethernet or whatever, it can carry EMI from equipment in the shack up to the antenna.
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