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10.368.910 GHz beacon active

6 August evening i setup a small Kuhne 10G beacon at 10368.9  200mW  integrated with horn antenna in a plastic box ( a lender from  Rob PE1ITR )

The horn antenna just looking over the dish in the rotating part of the antenna  about 23m a.g. JO33hg31

It will turn but i can direct it on demand that is the advantage.

Tropo openings expected in the evenings during the heatwave we have now. 

First report came from PA0JUS 599 42km   and G3XDY 390km  also seen at web SDR PI2EHV Eindhoven JO21QK  dx 221km 

Tropo ducting was very strong that first evening.

At 23cm strong beacons  GB3NO 9+ GB3MHZ  LA1UHG S9 LB2SHF 9+  LA3SHF OZ beacons

SK6MHI UHI beacons 1296.800 and 805  and strong radar ON0VHF PE9GHZ  also tropo backscatter observed

Also a new 23cm beacon   PA1SDR  1296.550 FT8 mode from JO33kh  maybe beter freq woud be 

1296.174 in the FT8 window

My 23cm XVTR  with VHFdesign SKY67151 lna still performs nice

 but after 3 years the DF9NP l.o. at 1152MHz   the TCXO    10MHz Taitien is slowly drifting up now about 10.0003    i have to tune 0.3kHz higher now but it  is very stable for a stand alone

it is not a VCXO no way to correct it down or it must be an capacitor  at the output? . 

The top printing say 12V supply. But 12V max? min? I wanted to supply this over an 25m cat5 type cable and need to know the Voltage range and current. Inside look shows the 12V is regulated to 9 with an UA7809 ,so 12V is about the minimum  9+2.5 still regulates and 25V will not harm if only the regulated 9V is used by Kunke..
The unit draws little less then 0.5A also there is a reverse Voltage protecting diode, good to know.


Comments

Unknown said…
Hi.

I observe that you are reporting lb2shf 23cm Beacons at locator jo48. That is wrong. The Beacon is located at jo38rb NORTH of the city Mandal.
The lb2shf 3cm beacon is located at jo48ad Odderoya in the city of Kristiansand.


Best regards Lb2s
Tore Skjefstad
Hello Jaap,

Strong signal here in Appingedam, JO33KH (20km east of your QTH :-) in my QO100 fixed dish setup. This reception report was made while a huge rain shower did hit our area. 18 Aug, 2020 around 17h30 UTC. Unfortunately the signal did drop below noise floor when the rain shower went away...

73's, Peter PA1SDB

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