{"id":4391,"date":"2020-05-18T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/05\/18\/homebrew-az-el-satellite-antennas-from-the-philippines-and-australia\/"},"modified":"2020-05-18T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T23:45:00","slug":"homebrew-az-el-satellite-antennas-from-the-philippines-and-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/05\/18\/homebrew-az-el-satellite-antennas-from-the-philippines-and-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew Az-El Satellite Antennas from the Philippines and Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t07R_xuEkpU\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/nightskyinfocus.com\/2020\/05\/18\/diy-satellite-tracker\/\"><b>https:\/\/nightskyinfocus.com\/2020\/05\/18\/diy-satellite-tracker\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <b>DU1AU is way ahead of where I was when I was working with Low Earth Orbit satellites. I just aimed the antenna about 45 degrees up from the horizon, and spun it around with a TV rotator with me &#8211;not the computer &#8212; as the controllers of the rotator. In essence I did the AZ manually and completely ignored the EL. This design moves the antenna in Azimuth and Elevation, and has the computer control the movements via an Arduino. FB. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>DU1AU points to the work of VK3FOWL and VK3YSP. Their site has very detailed info on how to build several versions of this kind of Az-El rotator: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarcnet.org\/rotator-mk1.html\">https:\/\/www.sarcnet.org\/rotator-mk1.html<\/a><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>This Az-El project represents a great opportunity to move beyond hand-held satellite antennas, and beyond my Az-only manual approach. It also give us a way to bring some real homebrewing into a part of ham radio that has come to be dominated by commercial equipment. There are some Arduinos and some lines of code, some motors and some metal work. Great stuff! <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><br \/><\/b> <b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/nightskyinfocus.com\/2020\/05\/18\/diy-satellite-tracker\/ DU1AU is way ahead of where I was when I was working with Low Earth Orbit satellites. I just aimed the antenna about 45 degrees up from the horizon, and spun it around with a TV rotator with me &#8211;not the computer &#8212; as the controllers of the rotator. In essence I did the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/05\/18\/homebrew-az-el-satellite-antennas-from-the-philippines-and-australia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homebrew Az-El Satellite Antennas from the Philippines and Australia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,67,29,428,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antennas","category-arduino","category-australia","category-philippines","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}