I’ve converted a 1.8m fixed dish to have elevation and azimuth control for use mainly on 10GHz EME (Earth-Moon-Earth, aka Moonbounce) Amateur Radio.
The drive motors are SDD3 from https://sub-lunar.com Many thanks to Paul W2HRO for pre- and post- sales support.
Inspiration to attempt the project was definitely helped by watching @VE6BGT and using info from https://bobatkins.com/radio/10Ghz_EME…
Motor driver is a Roboclaw 2x7A https://www.basicmicro.com/Roboclaw-2…
Power is a 24V Bioenno LiFePO4 battery https://www.bioennopower.com
For initial setup, I’ve been using the software provided by Basicmicro to control the drives. Basicmicro provides a Python API and I’m using that along with custom code to emulate the Easycomm protocol and interface with PST Rotator (I’ll provide more software/radio details in the future).