On Thursday, May 02 2002, Jeffrey Baker said: > My colleagues want to be able to readily repurpose a mounted > directional antenna, so that it would be easy to point it at site A > then quickly rotate it to point at sites B, C, or D. We are > thinking a computer-controlled telescope mount would work, or a > pan-and-tilt unit used for cameras and lights. > > The Meade telescope units look pretty sturdy, but the question is > whether you can actually remove the telescope. The pan-and-tilt > units from Directed Perception have a rating of only 6lbs, which is > enough for the antenna but I worry about wind loading. > > If any of you have mounted an antenna this way I'd like to hear your > experience. > > Regards, > Jeffrey Baker > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
Why spend the money on a pan and tilt (and the headache's involved in software control) and just replicate the hardware for each link? Much more reliable as well. -=C=- -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
