Thursday, December 24, 2020

#3 DATV QO-100 project

Heavy damage to my dish due to violent and strong winds on the hill.

The dish suffering, it needs repairs and reinforcement after the lull. 







Today, Repairing. Use of large washers and galvanized wire ties. It seems to be solid! we'll see next time!





I took the opportunity to check that the feed Poty / LNB are in the axis and in the center of the dish. Results, Hey No, not on the center. So I use the old method used many years ago. A pipe installed and blocked on the feed attachment. Perfect now! Next Wednesday, re-installation of the dish.







Gain and Beamwitdh of my prime focus 


 Distance from my house in St Helena Bay, South Africa to Es'hail-2 is 35,780.55 km.






 

 


               Some countries contacted in CW/SSB from May 2019 to August 2021 

                              ------------1St Test on QO-100  DATV --------------------------- 

Equipment:

-    DC Power supply 12/28v
-    Up converter, Adalm Pluto modified
-    RF power amplifier with Output  35/60w, ready.(AMPLEON BLC2425M10LS250)
-    DATV receiver Minitioune V2 - OBS F5OEO
-    1,8m prime focus dish for TX. with Poty
-    80 cm offset dish for RX with Down Converter Khune.