MX0WRC Club build

#1

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

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#2

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

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#3

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

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#4

All the mechanical build complete. Now for the electronics

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Uploading…

#5

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

#6

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.

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