Saveitforparts: Testing a Prototype Discovery Drive Az/El Antenna Rotator

Over on YouTube, Gabe from the saveitforparts channel has uploaded a new video testing a prototype of our upcoming Discovery Drive Az/El antenna rotator, which is now live for crowdfunding on Crowd Supply.

In the video, Gabe unboxes the Discovery Drive and sets it up with a Discovery Dish. He then tests it on various weather satellites, including Meteor M2-4, Meteor M2-3, DMSP, Metop-B, and Metop-C.  Later in the video, Gabe shows that you can also attach an Arrow Yagi antenna to the mount and notes that in a future video, he hopes to test CubeSat and Amateur radio satellite reception with the Yagi.

Testing Prototype Discovery Drive Satellite Tracker

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Discourse

RTL-SDR you are just the shame to delete post !

Game over ! i will black list all your products and make sure all around me they will be aware how u are !

Discourse

So message can take 2 days ? How it can be :.. ?

Discourse

This is a joke this is so called amateur hardware , but at pro price ?
With of cours a warranty out of :…

600 USD for the rotor :..600USD for dish + :…

No thanks, seems they think people are. juicy peer to get cash !

So much hope for a so much price !

Admin can you fix your code when we type :….. dot always first we have 2 stupids dots

Frank

Too expensive.

sa5chw

How fun!
The turntable looks really great—easy to get started with!
I think his YouTube videos are interesting, and he has a great attitude toward the whole thing, a real doer.
Hope everything’s okay with Tech Minds too; he hasn’t posted anything on YouTube for a while now.