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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I can assure you I have 34 years experience tracking the moon with 50 dB gain</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">antennas on X-Band. And no computers.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I track the thermal radiation of the moon since the Optical Moon and the</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Radio moon at NOT in the same position!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Kent WA5VJB<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Monday, March 23, 2020, 2:58:31 PM CDT, Paul Williamson via Ground-Station <ground-station@lists.openresearch.institute> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp5eb82252yiv3806905496"><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On Mar 23, 2020, at 10:56 AM, KENT BRITAIN wrote:<br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp5eb82252yiv3806905496ydp74d930cfyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr">I wouldn't rule out a dish/feed that puts out an Oval pattern much like</div><div dir="ltr">the FAA RADARS. Now pointing at the moon would be enough.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>That doesn’t really buy anything, since tracking the moon already requires two axes. The extra computations are free compared to the mechanical complexity.<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp5eb82252yiv3806905496ydp74d930cfyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr">Tips of the oval to match the satellite's max distance from the moon.<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>That’s a third axis, so the oval pattern dish is actually worse mechanically. It also gives up some gain, of course, which we can ill afford.</div><div><br></div><div> -Paul KB5MU<br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div id="ydp5eb82252yiv3806905496ydp91b4a5bfyahoo_quoted_5736091047" class="ydp5eb82252yiv3806905496ydp91b4a5bfyahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div id="ydp5eb82252yiv3806905496ydp91b4a5bfyiv6360139489"><div class="ydp5eb82252yiv3806905496ydp91b4a5bfyiv6360139489yqt7138944392" id="ydp5eb82252yiv3806905496ydp91b4a5bfyiv6360139489yqt93800"><div class="ydp5eb82252yiv3806905496ydp91b4a5bfyiv6360139489gmail_quote"><blockquote class="ydp5eb82252yiv3806905496ydp91b4a5bfyiv6360139489gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="ydp5eb82252yiv3806905496ydp91b4a5bfyiv6360139489gmail-m_-1543203454756966477WordSection1"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>
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