Only if your program is accurate and operating correctly. The Sun is not
a smooth mover, at say Noon, it is not due south in AZ all the time.
Joe WB9SBD
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On 7/14/2013 11:06 PM, George Henry wrote:
The sun is probably even better...
George, KA3HSW
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob- W7LRD" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 10:29 PM
Subject: [amsat-bb] antenna direction calibration
You'd think I would have this figured out by now. I never paid very
close attention to exact antenna direction until now. I mean the
satellite was always within the beam pattern. I tried the SuM part of
Satpc32. I am thinking of trying some EME, and I looked up the boom
of the yagi' and I was about 8* high and maybe 10* to the right of
the moon, still probably within the half power point of the beams.
This is where the obsessive part comes along, should I use the moon
as the "grand phooba" of calibration? Or compass true/mag. I mean the
moon is "pretty" consistent. As always the collective thoughts of
this bb are never wrong.
73 Bob W7LRD
Seattle
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