Turning antenna 360 degrees

Using Arduino General Electronics
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Please am working on an antenna project and i need the boards and parts i need to be able to make the antenna turn 360 degrees continuously

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Need to find yourself a "slip ring" with enough tracks for the power, Gnd, and whatever signals need to be shared between the moving part and the non-moving part.

There was a fairly recent topic on making sliprings that might help you out.

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Normally you don't need slip rings because you never continuously rotate.
This link shows many home projects on this topic:-
http://hamradionation.com/browse_vidfeeders.php?tag=homebrew+Rotator&keyword=Satellite

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Grumpy mike:
From the OP

360 degrees continuously

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KeithRB:
Grumpy mike:
From the OP

360 degrees continuously

Yes but not two and three revolutions. You can not get slip rings that will carry a RF signal. That is why radar that is not using waveguides only oscillate there antenna and do not continuously rotate them.

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Is this some kind of tracking system where the antenna will just rotate continuously? I mean, not just that it can turn 'round 360, but that it keeps turning?

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It helps if all the commies are in the same direction and unlikely to be able to attack you from behind.

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Hi, you could do it with RF but the antenna would have to be able to rotate 370 degrees , back and forth, the extra 10 Degrees gives sweep overlap at ends of travel.
You would need to have a couple of turns of coax around the rotating shaft to minimize coax stress due to flexing.
Only a suggestion.

Tom...... 8)

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