[Moon] ON0EME 23 cm beacon DOWN

Eddy Jespers ejespers at telenet.be
Fri Mar 12 12:02:54 CET 2021


Yesterday we had a wind storm passing and we noticed that the antenna was not pointing correctly.
After checking we found out that the AZ gearbox is still OK but the drive axis came off the fix part of the mount.
This is the most difficult part of the mount to reach. Most likely the antenne needs to be lifted with a crane to carry out repairs.
We might look into another solution to turn the AZ . 

So the beacon will be down for some time.

73’s Eddy ON7UN



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