[Elecraft] Arecibo antenna collapses
David Woolley
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Wed Dec 2 15:55:35 EST 2020
Arecibo was steerable by moving the feed point. They compensated for
spherical aberration by using a travelling wave antenna for the feed,
and later by using a series of sub-reflectors, the latter in the
gondola. The spherical aberration is independent of pointing direction,
which, I believe, is why they went for a spherical, rather than a
parabolic, shape.
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David Woolley
On 02/12/2020 17:22, Andrew Faber wrote:
> So by moving the cabin and pulling on cables, they can apparently track through about 20 degrees, unlike Arecibo, which is fixed in a spherical shape.
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