[NLRS] Trough reflector dimensions

[Barry Malowanchuk]

Hi Jerry,

OK on the dimensions, I am still recovering from a long day of travel
yesterday from Denver thru Mpls (poor WX)so I missed the dimension
discussion  but you are certainly right on the inches being correct.

I don't recall this CSVHF portable setup, but I know that 1296 EME has come
a long way in the past decade or 2!12 ft to 30 ft QSOs are marginal but OK
on SSB ....with the 30 ft guys usually about S4/ noise floor on my 10 ft
dish. I really miss my 12 and will probably go back or bigger (16).

Many of the North American guys in the past tended to not squeeze all the
performance out of their systems. Today things are done much better....you
really have to listen to some of the audio clips from G4CCH, W2UHI, HB9BBD ,
HB9Q and others....really outstanding stuff

Best 73

Barry
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer" <geraldj@isunet.net>
To: "Barry Malowanchuk" <ve4ma@shaw.ca>
Cc: "Brent Casavant" <b.j.casavant@ieee.org>; "Northern Lights Radio
Society" <nlrs@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [NLRS] Trough reflector dimensions


> Barry, I used the known limited performance of small dishes as
> comparison to the small trough reflector to show why the trough
> reflector sizes were truly inches and not centimeters.
>
> The last 12' dish I listened to on 1296 was very marginal working a 30'
> dish on the other end of the path. Of course, Mark Thorson was getting
> solid copy. I wasn't. Many at that CSVHF conference weren't detecting
> signal at all.
>
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
>
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