I came to your channel for the IFR repair videos and stayed for the dish control system. It is abundantly clear to me that you are a true pioneer in radio-electronics, really a testament to the origin of amateur radio. As an aside, I learned assembly a long time ago on PICS, back when the company would ship an entire box of parts and manuals for free. Thanks for your quality videos! Shawn WB6JWB
Hello Shawn and thanks for the comments.. Well I am not sure that I am a pioneer, I just like to build and tinker a lot.. I am PIC crazy as you can tell ha ha.. I had fun with the IFR until I blew that DVM board! Oh well things happen.. Thanks again.. Skip
Thanks Mohammed.. I just get keep adding and adding to the projects. I have been told that I get carried away, but I am having to much fun with it all.. Plus learning a lot also.. Skip
Hello Patrick, your an old VE6 dude, sorry to hear your gone ha ha.. Well on the equipment I am having a lot of fun building it all up.. I am working on a video now on the 6CM setup, being a computer Nerd you will enjoy it also.. Stay tuned.. Skip
Oh you are correct, its over complex for sure, but thats what I do.. I love to build and tinker and most of that gear, the monitors, computers etc are all surplus from work, no money spent so I have to use them.. The more I get into it the more ideas I get and say to myself, that would be cool !!! So I add and add to it and it comes together as a fairly large project.. You should look at the video I have on here for the 23CM water cooled amplifier! Now thats over complicated ha ha.. But it works very well and it again just looks to cool, and a lot of fun to build.. Skip
Yes Hello again.. I reached out to you a while back after watching your video.. I was impressed that we had done a lot of the same things.. Yea mine is complex or overdone but thats what I do.. Back then I was actually doing the first real serious attempt at VB6 and was learning a lot.. So I would discover something and keep adding onto the program.. It got more and more things added to it.. I am actually redoing the dish control system right now, on and off, to match up with the 6 foot solid dish I have been building for my 10 Ghz setup.. I need more control in between feedback steps from the encoders for my 9 and 6 CM systems also.. So the new program will be implemented into the large dish control also.. Plus I am taking out some things I never use.. I just have to get back to it between all the other projects.. Thanks for looking.. Skip, VE6BGT
Hello Eric, your probably right about HDSDR.. I only use it as a band scope to see where the signals are, I dont listen to them.. It's working through a soft rock board from the IF tap out of the TS2000.. I tried different programs for this but computer horsepower is my problem.. All my computers are old XP machines and other SDR programs cramp the CPU at 100 per cent.. Locks them up solid.. HDSDR is the only program I can find that uses very little CPU power.. Its works for my application.. Someday a better computer will come along, I hate buying computers as it goes against my grain ha ha.. Another reason I dont do any digital modes either!! Skip
I came to your channel for the IFR repair videos and stayed for the dish control system. It is abundantly clear to me that you are a true pioneer in radio-electronics, really a testament to the origin of amateur radio. As an aside, I learned assembly a long time ago on PICS, back when the company would ship an entire box of parts and manuals for free. Thanks for your quality videos!
Shawn WB6JWB
Hello Shawn and thanks for the comments.. Well I am not sure that I am a pioneer, I just like to build and tinker a lot.. I am PIC crazy as you can tell ha ha.. I had fun with the IFR until I blew that DVM board! Oh well things happen.. Thanks again.. Skip
You are one Bad Dude! Nothing but respect and thanks for your inspiration.
Impressive engineering work, all parameters monitorized, definetely a model station, congrats.
Thanks Mohammed.. I just get keep adding and adding to the projects. I have been told that I get carried away, but I am having to much fun with it all.. Plus learning a lot also.. Skip
Wow my dad W8JCE and his friends could never have imagined this shack. I can dig it though. Wow man.
As an ex VE6 and computer nerd, very interesting. (VE9ES). It sure looks like a ton of equipment there!
Hello Patrick, your an old VE6 dude, sorry to hear your gone ha ha.. Well on the equipment I am having a lot of fun building it all up.. I am working on a video now on the 6CM setup, being a computer Nerd you will enjoy it also.. Stay tuned.. Skip
@@VE6BGT Both meanings haha. I moved East in 2012 and have entered the 60s.
Where do I book a weeks rental?
This is my idea of a fun place to go for vacation.
Hello Doug. Your not married are you ha ha... I am with you but my wife has a different idea for vacations! Skip
Amazing station. The dB meter reading Sun noise, which scale? 10 or 20...?
Hello, I believe I said in the video that it was on the 20dB full scale.. If not it is for sure on the 20dB scale... Skip
Wtf 😂😂 wheres flash Gordon. That's insane.
FFS I used less gear to track satellites from a mobile ground station! Seems unnecessarily complex.
Oh you are correct, its over complex for sure, but thats what I do.. I love to build and tinker and most of that gear, the monitors, computers etc are all surplus from work, no money spent so I have to use them.. The more I get into it the more ideas I get and say to myself, that would be cool !!! So I add and add to it and it comes together as a fairly large project.. You should look at the video I have on here for the 23CM water cooled amplifier! Now thats over complicated ha ha.. But it works very well and it again just looks to cool, and a lot of fun to build.. Skip
73 de VR2SA
Congrats! A more complex system than what I had built on 23cm with a 3.2m dish:
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Yes Hello again.. I reached out to you a while back after watching your video.. I was impressed that we had done a lot of the same things..
Yea mine is complex or overdone but thats what I do.. Back then I was actually doing the first real serious attempt at VB6 and was learning a lot.. So I would discover something and keep adding onto the program.. It got more and more things added to it.. I am actually redoing the dish control system right now, on and off, to match up with the 6 foot solid dish I have been building for my 10 Ghz setup..
I need more control in between feedback steps from the encoders for my 9 and 6 CM systems also.. So the new program will be implemented into the large dish control also.. Plus I am taking out some things I never use.. I just have to get back to it between all the other projects.. Thanks for looking.. Skip, VE6BGT
im telling you dude that sdr app ur using is trash hdsdr its the noisiest app ive used stations and hams dont come in as clear as the other apps i use
Hello Eric, your probably right about HDSDR.. I only use it as a band scope to see where the signals are, I dont listen to them.. It's working through a soft rock board from the IF tap out of the TS2000.. I tried different programs for this but computer horsepower is my problem.. All my computers are old XP machines and other SDR programs cramp the CPU at 100 per cent.. Locks them up solid.. HDSDR is the only program I can find that uses very little CPU power.. Its works for my application.. Someday a better computer will come along, I hate buying computers as it goes against my grain ha ha.. Another reason I dont do any digital modes either!! Skip
Great ! 73 F4VTP ex on4kng
bro you are a mad man.!! that is insane cool.!!!! .. tony t. n0amy..