[TowerTalk] positioning Yagi with remote camera.

[Grillo's]

Google brings up B&W electronics speakers.  Can you lead us to a web page
for those pinhole cameras?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "VE6JY Don Moman" <ve6jy at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
To: <TOWERTALK at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 7:12 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] positioning Yagi with remote camera.


> Cameras are a great way to see what's going on up the tower.
>
> I have been using the small wired, inexpensive (30-50US$ range)  pinhole
> type cameras - called B&W "spy cameras" in some ads.  The b&w cameras have
> good infrared sens so 1 IR led is plenty if you are focusing on a mast
with
> a 0-360 degree scale attached to it.  I do this on some of the towers, esp
> those where the mast comes all the way down the tower for a ground mounted
> rotor.  On the towers with the 10, 15  20 and 40m stacks, I just point
them
> upwards, mounted so they are on the north side of the tower. On a
dedicated
> monitor in the shack just make a overlay scale for the monitor (or use a
> grease pencil, whatever).  This way I can see all the antennas at once.
At
> night, a spotlight is used as needed.
>
> None of my cameras are outdoor type but seem not to mind the cold and
rain.
> They are just enclosed in a small aluminum box.  Some of them have been
> running 24/7 for over 5 years now.
>
> The wireless cameras don't have the range for me, nor enough channels.
>
> 73 Don
> VE6JY
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Peter" <on7bj at pandora.be>
> To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 08:01
> Subject: [TowerTalk] positioning Yagi with remote camera.
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> i'm suffering a while from exact position readout from my controlbox
Create
> RC5A-3.
> Probably the potentiometer suffers from moisture inside the rotor.
> That's why a few days i have that readings and severall days later other
> readings,
> mostly i made a small paper to convert the readings to the real ones.
>
> I don't wanna  remove my rotor,but looking for a good solution to get
> a good exact positioning readout.
> I was thinking on a remote camera (with infrared) 2.4GHZ.
>
> Does anybody has some practical expierences  or solutions to point out
> the camera with a yagi,so i can see easy the directions for example in
> a 10 or 15 degrees step.
>
> So any suggestions,practical advises or webpages very welcome.
>
>
> Kind regards,73's Peter ON7BJ.
>
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