[amsat-bb] Re: Arecibo--MUCH louder today!

[Edward Cole]

At 10:31 AM 4/17/2010, Edward Cole wrote:
>At 09:41 AM 4/17/2010, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
> >Hearing test carriers MUCH better today!  Give it a listen, they are
> >saying 350W output today (rather than 30W yesterday ;)
> >
> >73!
> >
> >Mark N8MH
> >
> >Mark L. Hammond  [N8MH]
> >
> >
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>Nothing heard here, but the M2 11-element yagi (11.3 dBd/13.4 dBi)
>cannot be elevated (Moon is now 18-deg) so probably Moon is out of
>the beam.  I am using a Gasfet preamp on this antenna whose normal
>use is for terrestrial 70cm SSB/FM.
>
>Back to work on getting the dish ready (perhaps tomorrow?): hooking
>up 432 antenna, preamps for 432 & 1296, and 432 TR relay, plus
>getting az-el system calibrated.  Got the 432 & 1296 Pa's installed
>yesterday and some things that didn't work out and will have to be
>done after the weekend.  All wiring to the dish have to be tested,
>yet.  Yeah, a bit behind the curve for working Arecibo ;-)
>
>
>73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45
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Briefly heard voice on 432.044.500 about 1920 when Moon was 24.5 
deg.elevation; maybe the Moon traversed a sidelobe of my yagi?  I 
checked with KL7XJ who is also trying to hear Arecibo to see if he 
might have been transmitting - he was not.  No other 432 SSB stations 
within 70-miles so that rules out QRM.


73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45
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