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Old 12th Oct 2018, 4:15 pm   #1
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Default Poor Man's Rotator Using a Stepper Motor?

I dismantled a piece of laboratory equipment a while ago, ending up with a small box full of stepper motors. What I know about stepper motors will go on the back of a postage stamp.

However, I did wonder about the possibility of making an antenna rotator and there are certainly a few hits on Google discussing this approach, while other focus on drivable camera mounts.

Such a rotator will obviously not cope with a 20m 3-element beam but could cope with maybe a mag-loop or a small 2m yagi? I gather that the heart of the system would be either a Raspberry or an Arduino?

Wonder if anyone has been down this path?

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