Some rotors had a variable resistor in them for direction, the cornell dubilers come to mind and I think the yaesu's too.
Couldn you use some electronic meter face to read of the position on numeric value some how? Steaven Rogers, W4YI wrote: > > > I have a remote base setup on a UHF machine running an RC-210. I would > like to be able to remotely rotate a beam antenna via DTMF over the > repeater. I have figured a way to do this via the controller, but I have > not yet figured out how to know where the beam in pointed. I have seen > several brands of electronic compass senors, but not sure if there was a > way to incorporate one of these devices to determine beam direction. > After looking around, I am starting to think I may have to do something > along the lines of using a PC in some sort of configuration to > accomplish this. Just not sure how to get the ball going in the right > direction. Has anyone else done a project like this? Care to share any > ideas? -- Jay Urish W5GM ARRL Life Member Denton County ARRL VEC N5ERS VP/Trustee Monitoring 444.850 PL-88.5
