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

[Howie DeFelice]

I don't know about Nova Scotia. Even if the global pattern of the satellite antenna illuminated to the edge of the beam you would still need some beam bending to get over the earth. The G/T will be horrible no matter how good your LNA is and the downlink is not all that hot to begin with. It would be fun to try though. If you're going to do a DXpedition to Nova Scotia now is the time to do it. Been there in the winter and that ain't no fun.

Howie AB2S

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From: Ground-Station <ground-station-bounces at lists.openresearch.institute> on behalf of KENT BRITAIN via Ground-Station <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute>
Sent: Wednesday, May 1, 2019 9:30 AM
To: Dan White; KC9SGV
Cc: Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station
Subject: Re: [Ground-station] Operation 1.2m Dish Pickup: Dayton Hamvention 2019!

I made a QSO thru OSCAR 100 2 weeks ago.   But wasn't in North America

It is said that a QSO is possible from Nova Scotia,  But no one there to give it a try.

I've got CP Patch feeds that I used.    Kent WA5VJB

On Wednesday, May 1, 2019, 8:27:03 AM CDT, KC9SGV via Ground-Station <ground-station at lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:


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<mailto: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<mailto: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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