Actually found pretty close to what I was looking for. Motorized mounts made for Free to Air satellite dish. Under a hundred bucks, can't beat that!
Won't take much to modify. Always good. Bob- ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 1:01 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Remotely Adjusted Dish Mount > Just mount it to a commercial PTZ camera mount. There are plenty on E-Bay > and you can mount a camera on it to so you know what you are looking at > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Chuck Profito" <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:49:18 > To: 'WISPA General List'<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Remotely Adjusted Dish Mount > > > why not just two TV rotor motors mounted in a cross. Or use a ham rotor on > bottom and light channel master on top. The pole could go thru it so you > could mount a wireless zoom camera to the other side for balance and LOS > convenience. or put Horiz on one side and Vertical on the other, and don't > forget the camera in the middle. you could be the local loco wisp > reporter > at all the breaking news sites. (We know you already have the scanner) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Robert West > Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 6:50 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Remotely Adjusted Dish Mount > > Thanks, Mike. That's pretty close to what I envision. I need azimuth and > rotation. I have a set of step motors from an upgrade on one of my > telescopes and thought of maybe doing a McGyver on it but if there was > something already out there that would allow a small dish to mount to it > it > would save me time since I never have any as it is. > > The mast has a 125 pound payload rating so I can go pretty beefy. > > Bob- > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike" <[email protected]> > To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 9:24 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Remotely Adjusted Dish Mount > > >> Not exactly sure what you're looking for, but Yaesu makes some really >> nice >> Az/El rotators. I would think azimuth control would be good enough. >> There >> are a lot of cheap TV antenna type rotators. >> >> Friendly Regards, >> >> Mike >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Robert West >> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 12:43 AM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: [WISPA] Remotely Adjusted Dish Mount >> >> I recently acquired an 80 foot Super Heavy Duty Will-Burt telescopic mast >> with the goal for dual use of A) Site Survey and B) Emergency use during >> AP >> failure. >> >> I'm looking for a dish mount that can be remotely adjusted while the mast >> is >> extended. I haven't seen anything in my searches, wanted to know if >> anyone >> is using such a thing or have any recommendations of something they have >> seen. >> >> It's a cool toy so I gots to at least make the wife think I'm really >> gonna >> use it. >> >> Bob- >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> WISPA Wants You! 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