The rotator is designed to be mounted pipe to pipe or on an optional adaptor plate for conventional in tower mounting. If your favourite software supports a rotator, chances are, the. The alfaspid rak rotator one proven way to control the spid is by ham radio deluxe hrd. The spid ras rotator is an extra heavyduty rotator designed to run large satellite antennas and comes complete with an electronic control unit. We have a limited number of discounted demo units from trade shows and dxpeditions. Alfa spid rak and rael with rt21 azel green heron engineering. The alfaspid rotator is an extra heavyduty rotator designed to run large communication antennas and comes complete with an electronic control unit. Alfa spid rak rotator with rt21 controller package. Just doubleclick on the country on the hrd rotator map, and the spid is turning into that direction without problems. The satnogs client uses hamlib to speak to a rotator. Green heron engineering green heron engineering, llc is. Pstrotator and pstrotatoraz programs have a web server embedded. The before final installation of gauge of the 4wire cable to connect the equipment, it is strongly control unit to the rotator depends upon suggested you check out all the distance between rotator and functions and connections on a workbench. After that you can control your rotator via internet using any web browser running on a computer or.
I found for the most part the mechanical engineering was fine. When set to emulate another brand of rotator, the alfaspid will respond to commands, and send responses back to the computer as if it were the rotator brand selected. I purchased a spid rak from justin at innovantennas in the uk, its worked great and is running with pstrotatoraz software with computer control, put the prefix in and the rotator turns to the required beam heading or just click the mouse on the required heading so easy its brilliant. If your favourite software supports a rotator, chances are, the alfaspid will be able to interface to your software. While a commercial computer interface is available from yaesu, the satnogs project provides an open hardware design that is much cheaper. Using the controller with external software can also be a pain due to the so slow usb port running at a meager 600 baud.
Introducing the dx engineering rt4500hd heavyduty rotator expected. The external dc supply voltage needed will vary depending on the dc. Just select setup web page control to enable the web server on your pc. Edmonton, alberta, t5m 1x8 phones 780 466 5779 voice 780 466 4956 fax.
The alfaspid rotator consists of an extra heavy duty rotator designed to run. In auto mode, the controller will respond to commands from control software. To successfully use an alfaspid rotator, you will need the rotator itself, a control box, 4 conductor cable, and a 1224vdc power supply. The auto mode is exclusively used through the included software for logging and. Alfaspid motors run on 12 to 24 volt dc at very low amp draw 2 amps running, 3 amps to start.
Alfa spid rak with rt21 controller green heron engineering. Documents and downloads alfaspid computer interfacing. Order this product and get free delivery and handling on your entire order. The alfaspid ras azel rotator is an extra heavyduty rotator. Alfaspid rotator and controller instruction manual alfa radio ltd. I have bench tested the controller with hrd, and it works flawlessly.
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