[Laser] X-Y translator

[Andrew T. Flowers, K0SM]

Art,

I'm not planning on putting to the transmitter on a tripod.  It's fairly 
clear that it won't work.  I was thinking about using an piece of steel 
rack-mount stock and putting some rubber feet on the bottom so that I 
could set it on something solid, like the car (as long as the wind isn't 
blowing).  The trick here is to get linear X-Y to to some sort of az/el. 
 Any ideas?

Andy

Art wrote:

> Hi Andy,
>
> I'm not sure how usable your Zeiss XY translator will be. Most likely, 
> you will be limited by the stability of your tripod(s) though. The 
> Zeiss gear should be rock solid. If you can mount it on something 
> fairly solid (like a car or tree), you should have a first class rig, 
> at least as far as aiming goes.
>
> I've been watching the Meade ETX-60 and ETX-70 on ebay. These are 
> complete telescopes although the light gathering is really small. 
> While the telescope is nothing to write home about, the mechanical 
> drive appears to be dual axis and battery powered in a nice small base 
> for putting on a table top or similar. The 60 and the 70 are identical 
> mechanically, but the 70 has a larger lens, so it sells for a bit more 
> money. I'd mount the transmitter (and possibly the receiver) on the 
> base and align it with the North Star.
>
> I do not know whether it reads out in alt/az though, so I have not 
> purchased one yet. Has anyone tried one of these low cost Meade 
> 'starguide' telescopes???
>
> Art
>
>
>
> At 06:14 PM 6/4/04, you wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I just picked up a nice Zeiss X-Y translator at the hamfest today, 
>> micrometers and all.  I'd like to impliment it as my aiming mechanism 
>> for aiming my laser for LOS contacts.  Has anyone found a good way to 
>> do this?  I'm tempted to mount it vertically to get side-to-side and 
>> up-down motion, but I would like to hear from anyone else who'd done 
>> this before.
>>
>> Andy
>> K0SM
>>
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