MX0WRC Club build

g7kse · December 10, 2015, 8:46pm

The Workington & District Amateur Radio Club (MX0WRC) decided to build a ground station as part of a club project in conjunction with Cockermouth Fab Lab. So here’s a bit of progress from us…spot the error

Parts printed

g7kse · December 26, 2015, 2:54pm

Here’s the first part of the build done. Santa got in the way

g7kse · January 3, 2016, 2:34pm

Test fit for the azimuth parts. Hmmmm quality street choccies, tasty

g7kse · January 26, 2016, 7:28pm

All the mechanical build complete. Now for the electronics

Uploading…

g7kse · April 17, 2016, 3:51pm

Its been a while since we posted anything so here’s a short video of it in action.

g7kse · May 1, 2016, 12:06pm

After a bit of a fiddle around with the client software our ground station is tracking successfully. Following the ISS but not decoding because of the dongle had no sensible antenna attached. Here’s a quick look before it all gets boxed up.