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..
Comments
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
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