EQUIPMENT
NEW ELEVATION ATTACHMENT
FOR DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA
(see below)
UPDATED: 2000 January 16
This is a brief list of the equipment used
for receiving my images
This was the last QFH antenna I used designed
by Bill Sykes and Bob Cobey
Here roof mounted on a basic rotator
(Off-set at about 20 degrees)
New
antenna elevation system - using standard rotator
1:4
ratio with manual control - currently being tested
This
will have a 2M - 5 element Beam attached
Design stage
2M Ham Antenna & Rotator Testing
And finally installation
complete 1999 March 14
New
modified 10 element X-Beam installed and working December 1999
Designed
with the help of Michael Pedersen and Lars Mortensen
See
method of tracking manually below !
Redecoration of my shack almost completed
1999 May 03
Above can be seen the two directional
controllers for the antenna
Note also the addition of Mains cable
ducting and 12 new 13amp outlets for equipment
RIG Dartcom Receiver and Yupiteru Scanner
in bottom right image.
06 June 1999
Simulation of screen layout and output
info, used to manually track satellite.
WinTrak Pro and Wxsat
Receiver: Dartcom 136-138Mhz Scanning Rx
(Homebase and Mobile)
Yupiteru MVT-7100 Scanner
Latest antenna: 144 Mhz (2M)
10 element X-yagi re-configured for 137.5mhz - plus x-y axis tracking
Previous antennae:
QFH antenna to design of Bill Sykes
& Bob Cobey (RIG 48)
Antenna: Discone Roof Mounted
Antenna APT: Quadrifiler Helix Antenna - Design
Chris van Lint
2M 5-Element Yagi
AR300 Antenna Rotators Hybrid X-Y Axis
Dish Antenna: 1.8 Meter F:0.42 Dartcom with
Equatorial Mount
Downconverter Dartcom 2 Ch. 1691-1694.5 to
137.5Mhz
Dartcom 137Mhz Pre-Amp (Not currently used)
Interface: Martelec JVF2 AtoD
Computer: PC P233 with 80MB RAM Graphics SB
Voodoo 2D/3D Banshee 16MB 33.6 Modem 8.4Gb HDD + 3.3Gb HDD
CD ROM
CDROM HP7200 SB-16 Sound etc Mustec
MFS-600 Flatbed A4 Scanner Canon BJC-600e Colour Printer Epson
Stylus Colour 900 Printer
Fuji DX7 Digital Camera.
Sharp Mini Disc portable recorder MD-MT
16 for recording passes with mobile set-up.
Sony Vaio PCG-C1F Mini Notebook
P266 - Also used for mobile recording.
Software: JVFAX71 JVComm32 (Eberhard Backeshoff)
WxSat2.59 (Christian Bock) Bird-Dog (ERIM) Win Trak Pro ( Paul Traufler)
Satsignal (David Taylor) Tracker ver 1.1
(Oded Regev 4Z5BS)
Oregon MSF Clock
Oregon Digital Barometer
