Ham Radio Portable Satellite Tracking System WRAPS- EP5 The Moment of Truth !
The moment of truth ! We fire the system up and successfully track a satellite. I wanted make this video to show some basic setting of the Xbee, SatPC32 and the WRAPS board. WoW that thing is awesome, the live tracking AZ and EL matched exactlly what SatPC and the phone app were showing on the screen. Very impressed with the system, all the parts came together nicely. Everything is very precise and the finished box feels rugged, very tight.
This is the fifth of a series of videos to document my WRAPS satellite tracking project built per Mark Spencer's "WRAPS: A Portable Satellite Antenna Rotator System" article published on Jan 2014 QST magazine.
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Excelent Job Norbert, nice setup!! Thank You for sharing all the info!!
Norbert: Thank you very much for your videos, good luck and best 73!
Hearty Congratulations ! Very good set up !Very good information !
Thanks for the information on programming the XBee modules. Mark Spencer's article was a bit light on this. The Electronics are done. The mechanical part is done. Now to finish the assembly. 73 F4WBJ
@coquisats3066
7 жыл бұрын
Glad it could be of help, keep me posted on your project. Any videos yet? 73s WK
Thank you so much for sharing. I've been licensed since 69 almost exclusively working HF til about 15 years ago when we moved to a neighborhood with antenna restrictions so I was exploring maybe getting into satellite radio. I know nothing about it, your video was very educational. WA5ZVE
@MauofMiami
6 жыл бұрын
John Duncan for HF look up isotron antennas, don't give up hf radio cause of HOAs
How much did this cost to build approximately? Nice job and I am trying to build one
Well done and great job! Can you tell me what tripod you're using? I'm about to do this project myself 73's
@coquisats3066
7 жыл бұрын
Hi! Believe it or not, I got lucky and found the tripod for $10 at the local Good Will (thrift store). Is really heavy duty, doesn't look like a camera tripod, I'm thinking it came from a surveyor / measuring equipment. 73s WK
hola saludos desde mexico el kit viene con todos los componentes incluidos ??? asi como el hardware o se tienen que comprar aparte???? 73 xe2hqv
@coquisats3066
7 жыл бұрын
Hola. Todo se compro por separado. El articulo en la revista muestra los "part numbers" y los vendedores. Te diria que quizas esa fue la parte mas dificil. Empece con una lista de todas las partes y fui tachando segun las compraba y las fui recibiendo. Te recominedo la version de dos antenas versus ona sola antena. The parts and vendors were listed on the QST article. Probably the most challenging part of the entire project was coming up with the parts list, the vendors and then placing the orders online. I suggest that you get the parts for the two antenna version versus the single antenna.
@JKRsebas
5 жыл бұрын
@@coquisats3066 Hey Coqui, do you happen to still have that magazine around? I really want to build this myself but I can't find the product anywhere online. A ver si puedes ayudar a un primo :(