Re: [amsat-bb] Moon

[Charles Suckling <charles.suckling@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bill

I don't think you are seeing the moon - possibly some other noise source.

You need quite a large system to see any significant noise from the moon on 
2.4GHz.  With my 10ft dish I measure  only about 0.3dB of moon noise.  Same 
system produces about 13/14dB sun noise.

73

Charlie




At 13:21 18/12/01 -0500, Bill Hurlock wrote:
>Has anyone tried looking at the noise from the moon using the 2.4ghz
>AO-40 setup. I can see about a half S-Unit of noise from it. Using the
>3733 and a Myers Cast Bar B Q dish.
>
>Bill WA2TQI
>
>----
>Via the amsat-bb mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA.
>To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe amsat-bb" to Majordomo@amsat.org

----
Via the amsat-bb mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA.
To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe amsat-bb" to Majordomo@amsat.org