[NLRS] Beacon Doppler

[Clare Jarvis]

Perhaps MIke you just measured the speed and direction of the snow fall.  Care 
to present that calculations at Aurora?

73 Clare   de K0NY


On Sunday 12 March 2006 12:18 pm, Mike King - KM0T wrote:
> Hi guys, was messing around in the shack with my 10 and 24 GHz beacons
> pointed out the basement window.  I have been using these for frequency
> coordination since they are run off a locked source.
>
> Anyway, I looked up at the 24 GHz beacon signal on the SDR-1000 and saw two
> peaks....huh?  Tuned on the nice narrow one...the beacon - solid cw
> tone....and then the wide one up a 1 KHz or so...it was wide and raspey.
>
> It was a reflection of my beacon signal, dopper shifted back to the
> Gridinator (24 GHz tower setup)....very cool.  I turned the antennas a bit
> in az and elevation to peak it up.  I then recorded some of the signal with
> the SDR-1000.
>
> Then I checked 10 GHz, it was the same, but about half the distance away
> from the narrow local beacon cw signal, which is about right.
>
> Looked outside and it was snowing like crazy...wet big flakes and coming
> down good, windy too.  The antennas and beacons were pretty much pointed in
> the direction that the big wet snow was coming from.
>
> Perhaps I can play the file at Aurora 06 for you all.
>
> The beacon on 24 GHz is very low power 5 to 7 dbm, the 10 GHz about 10 to
> 12 dbm.
>
> Just a neat observation....
>
> 73 and good luck in the storm...
>
> Mike- KM0T
>
> NOW QRV 50 MHz thru 24 GHz with SDR-1000 IF
>
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