Detection Project: Radio Directional Finding Passive Pan and Tilt System
Here are the comments I made and figure I can note here also: Neat and great detail as always with your works. I finally have a direct TV dish and some other antennas I've picked up for free to use for. I'd like to use one antenna for a background scan (discone most likely) to subtract to reduce noise/unwanted signals and the other antennas for tracking. I've considered for the altitude/tilt tracking using a semi-circle, or actually might be a little more of a circumference, gear with the axis as close to the back of the parabolic trough or dish as you can so less counterweight required and is more the center of gravity. Kind of built right into the back side of the dish/trough basically. Then having the table rotate for panning maybe using captain chair bearings that can be found cheap like at Walmart in the marine section with the whole system kind of built like the Dobsonian mounts. This instructable kind of has the idea ( https://www.instructables.com/id/BUILDING-