Yesterday we tracked the Moon. First tracking done after fixing some issues on AZ (internal rack, motors)
The protocol is as follows:
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Moon tracking, starting at 19h42 UTC (07/29) [135.6,11.1], ending at 02:07 UTC (07/30) [225.2,11.0]
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Pb8 offsets aligned with IS-905 (207,30.4)
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AZ speed: 0.020°/s
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Frequency: 4.125 GHz
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Spectrum analyser: 5dB scale,
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1D tracking algorithm
The following picture shows the received signal during the tracking:
We have some clipping, but still these periodic oscillations…The good news are the oscillations can be correlated to a previous tracking experiment [ref].
The bad news are that the team feels desperate…