[NLRS] First 2.3 GHz EME QSO

[Zack Widup]

Hi Charlie,

I'm just curious if you measured the gain of your WD5AGO preamp for 2304
MHz. I have no way of measuring noise figure, but my WD5AGO preamp for 2304
has 28.8 dB gain.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 8:41 AM Charlie Betz <cmbetz at charter.net> wrote:

> I just completed my first 2.3 GHZ EME QSO this morning with Al Ward,
> W5LUA!  Al was very loud here at -8.
>
> Lots of struggles getting everything to work - at least on the TX end.
> Lost of issues with my old DEMI transvertr, but it seems I finally got
> them worked out.
>
> Equipment here is a 3m dish with OK1DFC septum feed that I built and
> ~150 watts.  RX LNA is a WD5AGO high gain preamp.
>
> Charlie, N0AKC
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