That's a good point. If you can get that accurate on the elevation, it should be easy to find the main lobe.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:53 AM, <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > Nice thing is that you can get elevation to a tent of a degree or better > on the cheap. Accurate azimuth is the hard one. > So of you had a tenth of a degree on elevation and “close enough” on > azimuth you could always find the main lobe. > > *From:* Mathew Howard > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 25, 2018 8:48 AM > *To:* af > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] SunSight MW15 > > Yeah, 1 degree would certainly be useful. We recently put up a couple of > 80ghz links, that have something like a 0.4 degree main lobe... the hard > part is getting close enough to be sure you're not in a side lobe - once > you get there, it's easy enough to aim with signal levels, and 1 degree is > probably good enough for that on almost anything. > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 6:24 PM, <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > >> Not huge if you consider most of the main lobes are that wide or wider, >> so just as long as you can get it close enough to tweak with signal levels, >> that is all you need. >> >> If you are thinking of a set it and forget it, a tenth of a degree would >> be needed for that. Depending on frequency and gain of course. >> >> 5 mil meaning? >> >> *From:* Josh Reynolds >> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 24, 2018 5:11 PM >> *To:* af@afmug.com >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] SunSight MW15 >> >> Get it down to 5mil accuracy and then we are talking! :) 1deg is huge! >> >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 12:53 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: >> >>> $15K >>> >>> One of my sons worked on doing something similar all last summer. He >>> ran out of time before we finished it. We got down to about 1 degree >>> azimuth accuracy. Maybe we will finish it someday. >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* Jaime Solorza >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 24, 2018 11:50 AM >>> *To:* Animal Farm >>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] SunSight MW15 >>> >>> I just video last week..how much are they? >>> >>> Jaime Solorza >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 11:45 AM Joshua Heide <josh.veloci...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Wanted to see if anyone had any experience using these alignment tools? >>>> If so would you recommend this product over others brands out there? >>>> besides the buying new directly from the manufacturer is there another good >>>> place to buy one or find a used one? >>>> >>>> Thanks for the help! >>>> >>>> Josh >>>> >>> >
