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).