[Moon] First 23cm echoes

[Dimitris Vitorakis]

Hello all

today is a vy special day to me as i finished work with the dish and got my 
first 23cm cw echoes!
Feed placed at the theoretical point calculated, still not aligned for 
optimum placement, tmw will do so with Sun noise.

Sun noise not yet what i should be getting but FB echoes with down to 50w at 
feed with my 3.6m dish! During echo tests i used the driver pa, with 120w at 
feed, distorted echoes peaked max at S-2 with narrow cw filter activated. I 
was amazed. Final pa works fb also. I have 3db tx line loss.

However, I have problems with my transverter which gives 4w, after a while 
9w, and later 15w. Also, i often lose rx gain by 10db when i key down from 
tx to rx, preamp gain comes back after some minutes.
Feed isolation is excellent, swr also and isolation of preamp seeing tx port 
of feed >65db. Sequencing works fb, so it looks to me like a relay problem 
in the transverter during tx/rx sequences. Will look into the pwr drift 
problem hopefully soon.

73
Jimmy SV1BTR