[Moon] [Fwd: Re: [VHF] 30-Foot Aluminum-mesh dish and mount available in Bremerton, WA]

[w2drz]

Note on the subject.
tom W2DRZ

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [VHF] 30-Foot Aluminum-mesh dish and mount available in
Bremerton, WA
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:56:22 -0400
From: w2drz <w2drz at madbbs.com>
Organization: W2DRZ
To: retired at easystreet.com
CC: 'Stanford VHF email Remailer' <VHF at w6yx.stanford.edu>
References: <00e801c776d5$8788f580$6401a8c0 at Laptop>

Hi All,

Jack had been corresponding with me just before he passed away.
Believe that he had the prop-pich had been refurbished just a few months
before the time of passing,

 he had work in the process of adding
US DIGITAL AB encoders, believe to have purchased them,
GEAR sprocket's with # 25 chain to the shaft for 1:1 drive
to the AB encoders.
 There is some where a complete W2DRZ controller ready to go.

If some one could chatted with his son-in-law and
 advised him that the complete tracking package is there for the dish in
the shack area some where.

Believe work to have been done last I had chatted the month before
passing.

here is the last note I can find now.

Subject: 
        Need info on connecting encoders to computer.....
   Date: 
        Sat, 19 Aug 2006 20:24:53 -0700
   From: 
        "Jack Riggs" <jackriggs at comcast.net>
     To: 
        <w2drz at madbbs.com>




Good evening Tom...we are making progress connecting up the computer to
the encoders, but need more information regarding the
overall layout when we get it all hooked up.  Have lost the last info
you gave me.  Need the web pages.  Thank you for your
consideration.  73 JACK RIGGS  N7AM  360 373 8135



Hope this can be also found as it shows he was working to be back on the
moon.


tom W2DRZ

Randy wrote:
> 
> The family of Jack Riggs, N7AM (SK) is looking for a good home for Jack's
> 30-foot aluminum-mesh dish.  They have someone nearby who has offered to
> take it down for its salvage value (there is a lot of aluminum up there!)
> but would rather it went to a ham that could actually use it.  If you are
> interested, please contact Jack's son-in-law, Ben Pedersen at (360) 377-2259
> to discuss and make arrangements.
> 
> There is a set of pictures of it in the photo gallery at:
> 
> http://www.kkn.net/~tree/gallery/n7am
> 
> It uses a prop-pitch motor for azimuth rotation and a hydraulic system for
> elevation.  These components would be included with the antenna and mount
> but there is no tracking electronics/computer/software.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Randy, W7HR
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