On 12 Dec 2009 at 11:10, Danny Casier wrote:
Date sent: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:10:18 +0100 From: Danny Casier Danny.casier@skynet.be Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Loosing the north!!! final conclusion. To: amsat-bb@amsat.org
Hi Luc
"I have 24 elements UHF linear yagi and after the switch i got a lot of small fades with a huge one. "
You have also polarisation. So it's normal you have fading due the spin of the sat. 24 elements, that's about 30° of opening angle.
Hi Danny
I recheck the alignment on SO-50 and i can confirm my previous north alignment was wrong. I can gave half a degree of elevation and still able to hear the sat what it was not possible before. I will keep it as is for now and i will try some other tests on some faint signal from space eg: UO-11.
Could be the moon with JT65B will be a good practice target to have this pointing question solved once for all. I was planning some EME experiment when AO-40 goes silent but i never completed the project. Just check the link below it does not take a lot of power for some EME contact
http://www.vhfdx.net/jt65bintro.html "-"
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