A day in the life of a satellite dish I am ashamed to say, but this silly little gif took a LOT more time and effort than I intended it to. It just became one of those rabbit hole time sinks where I just wanted to get it done to see if it was worth… Continue reading Weeknotes 13
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UA2781 lands at Midway Atoll on April 16th 2021
Settle in, this is going to be a long one. Background. Oh so briefly. C-Band uses a 6 foot (2 meter) satellite tracking dish on ~3.5 GHz. It picks up the aircraft to ground crew communications. L-Band uses a 7 turn 3D printed helix (swapped out from a flaked out patch antenna only 3 days… Continue reading UA2781 lands at Midway Atoll on April 16th 2021
Tracking Inmarsat 4-F3 with Node-RED
This page is out of date. Please go to my GitHub site: https://thebaldgeek.github.io/ For a year now I have been ‘tracking’ Inmarsat 4-F3 for my C-Band ADSC aircraft receiving ground station. It has been very crude tracking, but tracking none the less. I used a linear actuator with a position feedback resistor. Its worth noting… Continue reading Tracking Inmarsat 4-F3 with Node-RED