[Ground-station] Operation 1.2m Dish Pickup: Dayton Hamvention 2019!

[KC9SGV]

I will take one in Chicago !
Still think we can hit QO-100 with CW at least, at 0 deg elevation out over Lake Michigan.
Read somewhere that 10 Watts at the feed point will give ~2.5 KW ERP out of a 1 m dish...
Depending on the specs.
Diffraction, refraction and tropo scatter.
Remember the GEO sat sits at 36000 Km above Africa.
Weird, about 75 deg magnetic az and -25 deg el from Chicago.
Worth a test shot.
But, we really need/want our own all mode GEO sat or commercial solution transponder above the Americas !

Bernard,
KC9SGV

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> On Apr 30, 2019, at 12:00 PM, Dan White via Ground-Station <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
> 
> Michelle,
> 
> I'll be at Hamvention and can pickup a dish there.
> 
> Also, I'm willing to haul a few more back to the Chicago area (60min drive from Midway) for others to pickup that won't be in Dayton.  Conditioned on them fitting in my '12 CRV  :)
> 
> --Dan AD0CQ
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 2:22 PM Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
>> Operation 1.2m Dish Pickup: Dayton Hamvention 2019!
>> 
>> Doug Phelps will be at Dayton with transportation. He can take 10-15 of the free 1.2m dishes to Dayton for pickup.
>> 
>> I will send out a separate email directly to everyone that said they want one for potential coordination. 
>> 
>> If you are driving to Dayton, and are interested in a nice Andrews 1.2m offset feed dish, and missed out on this the first time around, then here is your chance! Forming the "Dayton List" now. 
>> 
>> -Michelle W5NYV
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