the hamcam works great; originally was to watch the coax not getting caught
in the crankup
now i use it to watch cars coming down the block, or my beam on the 50"
tower....
some of the newer cameras will switch to b/w in a lowlight condition; and
then go to color when it's brighter.... the az/el or pan/tilt ( pelco or
vicon)as they call it will cost more than a camera/lens.
and another note, my camera puts a little birdie on 20.... and that was
hard to figure out.
have fun
bill
At 06:19 PM 8/15/01, J. Kincade wrote:
>Kevin, don't forget to plan *plenty* of btu capacity for cooling in the
>"back room". Best thing I ever did was put air and baseboard heat in my
>shack/elex shop, which is a partitioned-off 14' x 25' room at the rear of a
>25x55 shop building about 200' from the big house. Now it's my year round
>hideout. :-)
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> >The TV will also allow me to view the tower-mounted beam cam
>
>I have a friend on the Big Island who has a tower cam looking out at the
>ocean. Pretty cool idea. I'm kind of mentally getting into the towercam
>thing, and I think I'll look into it for the new tower. Don't know how these
>little cameras will react to 1200 or 1300 watts of RF nearby, though. Also,
>I suppose it would be be a juicy target for the first available lightning
>bolt that comes along! Maybe I can find a cheap camera with backup spares.
>What I'd REALLY like to have is one of the surplus units from a TV station
>that is up/down and left/right remote controllable via touchpad on a dialup
>phone line. I could hook it up to my second phone line to control where it's
>pointing. Now that would be cool.
>
>73, Jerry W5KP
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