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Agreed, at elevations above 10 degrees, but at zero degrees you see allot of that big 290K noise source along the path. 🙂<br>
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<b>To:</b> Howie DeFelice; Wally Ritchie<br>
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<div>Not much of an issue with Oscar 100.</div>
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<div>With even a 18" dish you see the transponder noise floor.</div>
<div>So that's your weak signal limiting factor. <br>
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<div>On Thursday, May 2, 2019, 10:57:02 AM CDT, Wally Ritchie <wally.ritchie@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div>The G/T on the ground might be better than expected if the site directly overlooks the ocean, especially a few hours before dawn.</div>
<div>My understanding is that the Antenna is a global beam without shaping. It is likely slightly larger than the globe as the edges are dark and do not contribute to uplink noise. There is likely only a 3/4dB loss at the edge. </div>
<div>Probably need to rotate an offset antenna 180 degrees so the arm is at the top. (We do this for tropo when aiming a couple of degrees above the horizon). </div>
<div>While it doesn't make much difference in normal satellite operation, there is bending near the horizon. We even see this on ISS contacts that start earlier and last longer than predicted due this effect. </div>
<div>There will definitely be some troposcatter. So even if the main beam cannot be picked up, there will be forward scatter paths that follow a Rayleigh fading model. It is possible to use two antennas spaced about 100 wavelengths apart and realize space diversity
gain and overcome the separate fading of the two paths. Of course to take advantage of this some non-trivial processing of the receive signal would be required. </div>
<div>There is always the possibility of tropo ducting and it may even be somewhat predictable.</div>
<div>It might be useful to have some kind of very narrow psk31 beacon. </div>
<div>There is a possibility of reflections from the numerous airliners in the path (a major transatlantic route). However, these are typically short.</div>
<div>Note that ducting and/or aircraft reflections can result in sudden signal jumps of 50dB. </div>
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<div>Too bad it wasn't 15 degrees closer. </div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I made a QSO thru OSCAR 100 2 weeks ago. But wasn't in North America</div>
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<div>It is said that a QSO is possible from Nova Scotia, But no one there to give it a try.</div>
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<div>I will take one in Chicago !</div>
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Still think we can hit QO-100 with CW at least, at 0 deg elevation out over Lake Michigan.</div>
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Read somewhere that 10 Watts at the feed point will give ~2.5 KW ERP out of a 1 m dish...</div>
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Depending on the specs.</div>
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Diffraction, refraction and tropo scatter.</div>
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Remember the GEO sat sits at 36000 Km above Africa.</div>
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Weird, about 75 deg magnetic az and -25 deg el from Chicago.</div>
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But, we really need/want our own all mode GEO sat or commercial solution transponder above the Americas !</div>
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<div>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 :)</div>
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 2:22 PM Michelle Thompson via Ground-Station <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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Doug Phelps will be at Dayton with transportation. He can take 10-15 of the free 1.2m dishes to Dayton for pickup.<br clear="none">
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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. <br clear="none">
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