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Subject: [TowerTalk] rotor controller
From: rthorne@arn.net (Richard Thorne)
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 22:29:17 -0500
Point your browser to: http://www.hosenose.com/  Look for the SARtek Universal
antenna rotor interface towards the bottom of the home page.

Gary M. Belcaster wrote:

> Have been having a good time thinking on a little microcontoller-based
> rotor controller.  I surely can't be the first to consider this (outside of
> hygain that is).  I scan qst and cq pretty regularly but can't recall
> seeing such a beast.  Have I missed it?  Also, just to further this a
> little, a second question.  I'm assuming  that rotators convey position
> information via voltage (yep, I've never dug into one).  Wondering if
> anyone knows what the range of this voltage might be on say the ham-IV ie
> would 8-bit resolution be sufficient.  Thanks in advance guys.
>
> Gary
>
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