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ST2NH: An old photos of my Homebrew Satellite Tracking Equipments.

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 An eggbeater Antenna - For NOAA weather satellite .

FODtrack Rotator interface with AZ/EL driving relays
Used with a modified CCTV Camera Rotator
as on next photo.

 UHF/VHF cross Yagi  antennas with changeable circular polarization coax phase lines
  and remote control DC switches.
The rotor mod include adding a voltage feedback potentiometers.
The AZ-Pot  connected  mechanically to AZ moving part.
The EL-pot driven by  a  hanging  weight ( NUT)  to the gravity .

 High gain UHF  Yagi with cross elements and switching circular polarization
RHCP/LHCP

 The VHF Pre-Amp - Transistor was BF981
On services since 10 years
No TR/RX relay . peaked to 137 MHz for receiving the weather satellite  .

 CI-V interface built on perforated PCB - with external DC power supply

 PC sound card interfacing 
later 1:1 isolation transformers were added

VHF/UHF on single boom

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