[amsat-bb] Navy space radar??

["A.Bombardiere" <ab2cj@xxxxxxxx>]

    Hello all...

 

I plan on recording meteor echos using the Navy Space Radar System on

216.980 mhz.  I would like to test my antenna system by monitoring the echo

from the Mir space station as it passes through the radar.  I would guess that 

I could use my tracking program and look at the footprint of Mir, to see when

the Navy radar location and my QTH are in a mutual window.  My problem is 

that I'm not sure if the fan beam is on all the time, and if the footprint method 

of monitoring is posible.  The moon would produce a longer lasting echo as it 

passes through the radar beam, but I'm not sure of where the moon should be 

positioned to hear its echo at my location here in the northeast.  Can anyone

shed some light on this??  

 

Thanks,

73, Tony 

AB2CJ