[NLRS] Question on Arecibo dish

[tosca005 at umn.edu]

Hmm... Jon sez 305 meters, Barry sez 300 feet. It is 305 Meters, from what 
I see on the Internet.

I seem to recall that on the AMSAT reflector, they were saying that the 
gain on 432 MHz was about 80 dB.

Would it be 24x as much on 1296 MHz (24 x 432 = 10368)? That's about 14 dB 
more added onto 80 dB = 94 dB. Seems a bit high to me.

These articles...
  http://www.naic.edu/~astro/aotms/performance/AO_perf_oct02.shtml
  http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1996ASPC..106..389V

...talk about the performance of the Arecebo dish on various frequencies,
but I could not find a simple dB gain figure in there...

On May 8 2010, Barry VE4MA wrote:

> I am not sure how much to derate it because it is a spherical dish
> ...but it would be about 83 dB if the surface accuracy and mesh was
> good.....the 300 ft dish is  W VA should be about 79 dB and it is
> more than accurate enough.
>
> Beamwidths way less than 0.1 degree
> 73
> Barry VE4MA
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Behalf Of w0zq at aol.com
>Sent: May 8, 2010 11:57 AM
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>Subject: [NLRS] Question on Arecibo dish
>
>Can someone tell me what the gain is for the 305m Arecibo dish on X band ?
>Approximate number is good enough.
>
>73, Jon
>W0ZQ