@drewnogal
Won't be for a while, am upgrading a Collins 30L1 amplifier, maybe puts out a kilowatt on a good day, I'll be happy with 600 watts🙂
Then I have to get a proper UHF antenna, I think they monitor the 450 megahertz band, and maybe the 2 meter band, 146 odd Megahertz.
If you get the antenna aimed right you don't even need that much power, since it would be 240 odd miles up so aiming at it when it just about disappears over the horizon, maybe 500 miles away, which is not that big a deal since it would be a straight shot, no mountains in the way, line of sight.
I'll let you know if I succeed.
It really compliments my work on Apollo 50 years ago at Goddard Space Flight center.
Apollo Tracking and timing was my job back in those ancient days🙂
@sonhouse saidYou may know this already, but if you mount a directional antenna on a tripod with an equatorial mount (they have an electric motor which tracks a target), you could probably get by with very little power.
@drewnogal
Won't be for a while, am upgrading a Collins 30L1 amplifier, maybe puts out a kilowatt on a good day, I'll be happy with 600 watts🙂
Then I have to get a proper UHF antenna, I think they monitor the 450 megahertz band, and maybe the 2 meter band, 146 odd Megahertz.
If you get the antenna aimed right you don't even need that much power, since it would be 240 od ...[text shortened]... at Goddard Space Flight center.
Apollo Tracking and timing was my job back in those ancient days🙂
@sonhouse saidAny succes by now?
@drewnogal
Won't be for a while, am upgrading a Collins 30L1 amplifier, maybe puts out a kilowatt on a good day, I'll be happy with 600 watts🙂
Then I have to get a proper UHF antenna, I think they monitor the 450 megahertz band, and maybe the 2 meter band, 146 odd Megahertz.
If you get the antenna aimed right you don't even need that much power, since it would be 240 od ...[text shortened]... at Goddard Space Flight center.
Apollo Tracking and timing was my job back in those ancient days🙂
@sonhouse saidYou probably would want the extra distance you'd get with a skip. The good news is that AM can do this easily. Buildings suck up the AM signal though, so out in the country is better for LD skip.
@drewnogal
Won't be for a while, am upgrading a Collins 30L1 amplifier, maybe puts out a kilowatt on a good day, I'll be happy with 600 watts🙂
Then I have to get a proper UHF antenna, I think they monitor the 450 megahertz band, and maybe the 2 meter band, 146 odd Megahertz.
If you get the antenna aimed right you don't even need that much power, since it would be 240 od ...[text shortened]... at Goddard Space Flight center.
Apollo Tracking and timing was my job back in those ancient days🙂
@moonbus saidYou'd have to be exact, though, even a bit off and you'd miss your target. Better to use an omni and rely on the skip.
You may know this already, but if you mount a directional antenna on a tripod with an equatorial mount (they have an electric motor which tracks a target), you could probably get by with very little power.
@lemondrop saidThere, there, come on ..... lets go pick some strawberries to eat with ice cream 😺
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