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Driving a tracking Antenna with Ardustation

Posted by Nathaniel Caner on July 10, 2010 at 9:24am
Hey all,

I have some questions about driving a tracking antenna with Ardustation. Jordi's Blog Post "New Ardustation Code: Now with Pan/Tilt Tracking Antenna" , has a lot of questions posted but not a lot of answers. It hasn't seen a lot of activity in a few months. Also the link in the wiki, "Driving a pan-tilt ground antenna",(yeah I know, it doesn't work) doesn't work, so I'm kinda drifting in the wind.

My questions are as follows:

  1. How is the calibration procedure of the pan/tilt servos performed?
     2. In v1.3 there is a tab labeled SERVOS, it's a blank page, what is it's intended purpose?

Any input would be appreciated!

Nathaniel

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  • Mike Bakula July 10, 2010 at 10:05am
    I had a similar problem, with the V12 software not having anything to drive the servos. The problem was fairly straightforward, so I modified the code. Here's my solution for azimuth -- it would be trivial to do the same for elevation, but I didn't need it yet.

    ArduStationV12a.zip

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