Thanks Magnus. I may try that when I get it bolted together. As it is, it's just four stacked pie pans with a patch antenna perched on a CD sitting on a couple of rolls of electrical tape. =)
>________________________________ > From: Magnus Danielson <mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org> >To: time-nuts@febo.com >Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 3:52 PM >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Choke Ring Antenna - Patch Placement? (Bob Stewart) > > >On 10/11/2013 08:05 PM, johncr...@aol.com wrote: >> You might want measure the antenna pattern. Lady Heather has a mode that >> plots satellite signal level vs azimuth and elevation. You might want to try >> that. It takes a day or so to get a complete plot, but you have some hard >> data to compare various choke positions. >If you tip it on the side and let the bottom be parallel to north-south, >you can see the cut-off as the sats go in and out over the rimb, and you >would also get a fair idea of suppression of signals from the lower side >of the antenna. A little el cheapo testing using what you got. > >Cheers, >Magnus >_______________________________________________ >time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com >To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts >and follow the instructions there. > > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
