Description on BROADCASTbargains website: TV1 Minicaster Satellite Dish Pointer A rare satellite dish pointing system, once part of a KA-SAT outside broadcast uplink van, is being offered for auction. The…
Your description matches the TV1 miniCASTER vehicle-mounted satellite uplink positioner much more closely than a conventional antenna rotator. From the material I found, the system was mounted on broadcast vans…
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If by “taper the waveguide down to a point” you mean replacing the flat shorted end behind the probe/feed with a pyramidal or conical taper that gradually narrows to a…
Yes. The Yaesu G-5500DC absolutely has position feedback, and that’s one of the reasons it is so popular for satellite tracking. The system consists of: Inside the rotators are position-sensing…
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If by “taper the waveguide down to a point” you mean replacing the flat shorted end behind the probe/feed with a pyramidal or conical taper that gradually narrows to a…
This framework is designed to support an aluminium window netting to reduce ground noise. However, as soon as I added the wood to this an immediate potential issue arose –…
I purchased one of these to make a cheap homemade WR-650 waveguide for hydrogen line work.
The SDR (NESDR) crashed a number of times when temperature locally got up to 32 C a few weeks ago, very unusual for us. The miniPC and SDR sits in…
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