Re: Fwd: [amsat-bb] K Band gear

[Jonathan Naylor <jonathan.naylor@xxxxxxxxx>]

There is a serious point there. Howards dish is fed with linear 
polarisation whereas AO-40 is circularly polarised, so there is an 
immediate 3dB loss which is rather important at those sort of 
frequencies. Also the Procom feed is not exactly efficient thereby 
losing another few dB of signal.

But despite that I wish you luck Howard, you're getting into hardcore 
microwaves now and theres no turning back. Soon you'll be looking down 
on any band less than 1GHz ! ... only joking.

Jonathan  HB9DRD/G4KLX  QRV on 6cms and 3cms
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