[Moon] [Moon-Net] EME Status Update - 1296 QRV

[Edward R Cole]

At 08:43 AM 3/12/2015, Edward R Cole wrote:
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Got everything done today.

Dish is QRV and the 1296 system is QRV.

I did a little more testing of the 150w amp and advanced drive to 
reach 130w output.  Looks to me that I'm approaching saturation so 
not going to push beyond this.  Driver was running over 10w.  Voltage 
is holding at 27.65v which is pretty good.  Looks like the new No.8 
wire run is working.

I've decided to stay at 120w until I get my Bird 250E element 
calibrated.  DC output of the RF detector diode is 1.6v (which 
implies RF power might be higher than 120w).

Tomorrow, I will check my sun/cs Y-factor.  Declination is -18 so no 
eme for over a week.

Declination will rise to +7 degrees Saturday, March 21 so I plan to 
operate on 1296.070 +/- after our local 2m-SSB Net ends (1900utc).


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