Re: [amsat-bb] AO-40 reception

["John / NS1Z" <ns1z@xxxxxxxx>]

Here we go again. I now have the DEM 13LNA connected to my Conifer 24dB
dish. That feeds the Drake via 3' low loss jumper. The Drake feeds the
station receivers by 100' of FSJ4-50B 'flexible' hardline. This morning I
used IT to find the sun and shoved the antenna around to it. I DEFINITELY
saw an increase in the noise level on my receive. Peaking on noise and using
the IC-746 I saw 2 s units (read that a noticeable change) increase when
moving the antenna around. If I am interpretting this correctly it means my
antennas are off in AZ by about 12 degrees and in EL by about 5 degrees,
based on the peak of the noise.

Have I interpretted this information correctly? Is that how others are
checking the accuracy of their antenna orientation?

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark L. Hammond <hammond@surrealnet.net>
To: Jesse Morris <w4mvb@juno.com>; <amsat-bb@AMSAT.Org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO-40 reception


> Wow, glad to have somebody confirm weak signals last night, Jess!


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