Patent ID: 9203162
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: H01P,H01Q

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a system for receiving a signal from one or more satellites or for transmitting a signal to one or more satellites, the system comprising a frame, a signal converter, a depolarizer, and a single rotator, the signal converter being configured to convert between received radiation or radiation to be transmitted and a corresponding electrical signal, the signal converter being positioned, in relation to the frame, rotational around an axis, the depolarizer being mounted, in relation to the frame, rotational around the axis, the single rotator being configured to rotate the converter and the depolarizer, the method comprising: fixing the depolarizer in relation to the converter at a first rotational relationship, rotating both the converter and the depolarizer within a desired angular interval, rotating the converter and the depolarizer, in a first direction, past a rotational position where a first end of the converter and the depolarizer engages a first end stop and stops rotating while an other end of the converter and the depolarizer remains rotating, rotating, in the first direction, the other end of the converter and the depolarizer independently of the first end of the converter and the depolarizer to a second rotational relationship, rotating the converter and the depolarizer in a second direction opposite to the first direction, to a position where the first end of the converter and the depolarizer engages a second end stop and stops rotating while the other end of the converter and the depolarizer remains rotating, and rotating the other end of the converter and the depolarizer in the second direction, until the converter and the depolarizer is in the first rotational relationship.