[Moon] WB2BYP 3400

[John]

Hi Peter and Al, 
 
I was SWLing on 3400 Sunday and heard G3LTF, K2UYH and HB9Q.  Feed was placed adjacent to W2IMU 23cm feed with some predictable skew to the beam.  Sun noise 15.6 dB measured 8 Aug with sf=127 is off VK3UM prediction by at least 3 dB.  Moon noise about 1.0 dB at best so I think there is improvement to be made.  Wonder how that shortfall compares to others with compromise feed locations.  Ant is 8.4m 0.43 f/d feed septum with scaler ring, LNA 0.7dB at feed.  The box with the TX and up/downconversion was in the shelter at the tower base not at the feed.  Hope to have it in place sometime soon. 
 
Images and some video clips here:
 
 http://www.storyavenue.com/dsk3400.htm
 
Thanks for promoting this AW.  
 
John
WB2BYP
 
 
 
From: g3ltf at btinternet.com
To: moon at moonbounce.info; moon-net at mailman.pe1itr.com
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:21:32 +0100
Subject: [Moon] G3LTF 9cm AW second pass





Most contacts on day 2 were on SSB. I worked OK1KIR, PY2BS, LX1DB and W5LUA 
. On CW I worked PA7JB, W5LUA and OZ6OL. I ran a test with G4DDK and he just 
copied my SSB enough to get both calls even though I had about 20% of the  
dish obscured at the time.( This is what AWs are for)  also heard were 
OH2DG, WA6PY, K2UYH, PA0BAT, SM9PGP and G4NNS.. On the second day I ran my G4DDK 
preamp with an MGF4941 which got me another 0.4dB sun noise.
My thanks to everyone who made noise measurements, I will publish results, 
as for 6cm, in the 432 and above NL.
Thanks for all the fun EME
73 Peter G3LTF

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