I've seen people with fixed elevations of 25, 30, 35 degrees, any consensus on which is the best? And how well, if at all, does an antenna with a fixed elevation of 30 degrees or so perform when the sat is higher than 60 degrees?
Hi Bill,
I assume you are rotating in AZ.
Determine your beam width, divide by two, and that is your EL. I would tend to favor the horizon, obviously the greatest range.
I use home brew quadrifilars, rotate with a little TV rotor, 2M and 70 cm on the same mast. By experiment, I determined the beamwidth ~65°, so I fixed EL at 30°.
And if the satellite downlink is strong enough to be heard at all I get the entire pass....
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