{"id":1438,"date":"2010-02-01T01:21:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T07:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2010-02-02T09:54:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:54:21","slug":"my-pan-tilt-mikrotik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregsowell.com\/?p=1438","title":{"rendered":"My Pan-Tilt Mikrotik"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had the desire, not the need, to be able to pan\/tilt my Mikrotik AP from inside my house. It is a huge pain to go outside, climb the ladder, sit on the roof with my laptop and tune my AP. Yes I occasionally have to tune my AP. So I came up with a simple and relatively inexpensive option…A Pan-Tilt mount for a surveillance camera.<\/p>\n

I found this guy on ebay for $99 with $20 shipping. Here’s my install:
\nAs you can tell, the PT unit is about the size of a milk jug, so it’s pretty big.
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The whole shibang<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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I used a tailor light hookup kit to connect my cat5 hookup wire to the PT unit.
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Heat shrink and liquid electrical tape...I'm high dollar.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

My superfly custom brackets that I bent…I bent them on my BBQ pit \ud83d\ude09
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I doubled it up.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

I attached a piece of PVC to the top of the unit to hold the rootenna to. I then spray painted it to look, in the words of Rob, less “redneck.”
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Soooo perdy.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

A full 360 degree pan takes about 45 seconds.<\/p>\n

I really only use pan, so I unhooked the tilt once I got it set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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