Reception of KP4AO - Arecibo Radio
Observatory (Puerto Rico) by UHF Moon Bounce |
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March, 19; 2010; from 20:08 to 20:27 UTC |
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Positions of the Moon according Cartes du Ciel: |
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Sked for day 19 according VK3UM EME Pallner considering
70 degrees above elevation on Puerto Rico sky due dish window (FK68wi
and GG66nt as references): |
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Very simple system to sustain the Yagi during the
tests on the reception set at Brazil: |
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| The Arecibo CW signals are the bolded traces on the
left side of the FFT WSJT screen. Major part of the listening happened
on 432,04418 MHz. Big horizontal changes are just the tuning of the transceiver
on the reception post: |
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Now the audio recordings. They are NOT appropriated
because bad use of external digital recorder. So audio 1 and 3 were edited
to give a better idea of the signals that day. For a good example of contact
made via Arecibo you can travel to the OK1TEH
link) |
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| On the reception at PY2ZX: IC-706MKIIG, 8 meters of Datalink RGC-213 (-1dB), Yagi 15 elements K1FO by PY2NI (15,9 dBi); polarization, elevation e azimuth manually changed. | ||
| On the transmittion at KP4AO: 300 meter dish and TS-2000 BAREFOOT!!! | ||