Bob- W7LRD wrote: > > Thanks Drew et al. > > No one else on but me, or at least I was all I could hear, on the > 0100Z pass, running about 60W to a 24 loop yagi. Question-- What is > the power of the 1.2ghz downlink? The signal strength is at least 3 S > units less that the 435.3 frequency. Anyone with 1.2ghz stuff---dust > it off. > > 73 Bob W7LRD > > 450mw on .150, and 650mw on .300 right now. My guess is your receive antenna is RHCP. 435.150 feeds the LHCP antenna combination, so you are ~20 db down from the .300 downlink on a RHCP antenna.
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