[Laser] Stepper motor control of laser communication unit

[Kerry Banke]

Andy - That's great hat you have someone there to play with:) Good luck on 
your 47 GHz and laser contacts. We have four 47 GHz rigs in our group but 
have only done the 1KM required for the contest each year.  Sometime we 
need to get out & see what they will really do since we have already done a 
lot farther with lasers.  I'll certainly send you the info as soon as I get 
it together over the next few days.  I kind of got sidetracked from the 
NLOS experiments when these steppers came along but I think they will be 
useful for those experiments as well.  I need to finish getting setup to 
try communicating one way using your Laserscatter SW and then build a 
second set of equipment.  I'm kind of assuming we'll have to run in simplex 
mode to avoid clobbering our local receiver with our local  Tx signal.
  Let me know how you make out on you hilltopping.
Kerry N6IZW -

At 02:52 PM 10/21/2004, you wrote:
>Kerry,
>
>I'd like to see a copy of that word document when you get a chance.  I 
>won't get a chance to do any building any time soon, but it will give me 
>something to think about.
>
>BTW, I just assembled a second laser aimer using a couple of Daedal 
>stages  It very much like my other aimer which uses a big Zeiss 
>translation stage, only much lighter.  With any luck we'll be lighting up 
>for a real QSO around here in a couple weeks.  K2AXX is planning a big 
>tower party to put up the uW antennas and It looks like we are going to 
>try a 47 GHz shot from his hill.  If we do that then I'll tag along with 
>the THz gear :-)
>
>Andy K0SM/2
>
>Kerry Banke wrote: