This is so cool. Great job on making this superb apparatus for adjusting the antenna's vertical and azimuthal orientation. I also really like the use of gnu linux for its control. Keep up the great work!
My Octave code takes a input 5 sat parameters of a particular pass (max elevation, azimuth at start and end and UCT time of each) and then controls the 2 motors step by step by sending simple TCP/IP string commands to the green PCB, an ethernet gateway (AVR Net-IO Kit ). To use sockets with octave, add the "sockets" package. As the antenna has not much gain, I am using for hor. movement a linear function and for vert. movement a cos function (-pi to +pi). Thanks, HB9ZEM
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tonytonytee 1 month ago
Nice work - great job!
DuroWarrior 4 months ago
Also great for autonymous control for satellite communications! Extremely useful.
mercedesbenzformula1 4 months ago
This is so cool. Great job on making this superb apparatus for adjusting the antenna's vertical and azimuthal orientation. I also really like the use of gnu linux for its control. Keep up the great work!
mercedesbenzformula1 4 months ago
I do not see how octave related the stepper control of your antenna, can you explain?
yxhankun 5 months ago
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My Octave code takes a input 5 sat parameters of a particular pass (max elevation, azimuth at start and end and UCT time of each) and then controls the 2 motors step by step by sending simple TCP/IP string commands to the green PCB, an ethernet gateway (AVR Net-IO Kit ). To use sockets with octave, add the "sockets" package. As the antenna has not much gain, I am using for hor. movement a linear function and for vert. movement a cos function (-pi to +pi). Thanks, HB9ZEM
TheStefanCH 5 months ago 2
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yxhankun 5 months ago
I like it, very good :)
oz9aec 8 months ago