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Low sky noise noise temperature means that very weak signals can be heard against the background noise that would otherwise be swamped by galactic and manmade noise on MHz and below.
Sensitive receivers, using very low noise amplifiers LNA, are even able to detect 'noise' from the moon. Being a 'black body radiator' at a physical temperature of between and k, depending on the phase of the moon, its noise temperature can be readily detected against the much lower background sky temperature of 2.
This is only possible when the beamwidth of the receiving antenna is small and the noise temperature of the LNA is very low. In practice it is very difficult to detect moon noise at MHz with an 'amateur size' antenna, but at MHz and above it becomes increasingly easy up to 10GHz within purely amateur radio means. Above 10GHz atmospheric gases contribute noise due to absorption and it again becomes increasingly difficult to detect moon noise.
The frequency range between 1GHz and 10GHz is commonly known as the microwave low noise window due to the prevalent low sky noise temperature. It is this ability to detect weak signals against a low sky noise that makes the microwave bands attractive to many EME enthusiasts.
It is not critical that the EME operator is able to detect moon noise except on the higher of these bands, only that the ability to do so shows that the receiving system is working as expected. Detecting moon noise on MHz is not essential and usually only possible with larger dish antennas.
Note that I said that the beamwidth of the antenna must be small in order to detect moon noise. What if the beamwidth is not narrow? Then the antenna will see more cold sky than 'warm' moon. That also means that signals reflected from the moon will be weaker since the moon fills less of the aperture that is the receive antenna.
Ideally, the beamwidth of the receive antenna will be exactly the same as the beamwidth that the moon subtends on the surface of the earth about 0.
However, it is not quite that simple, as you might expect. As radio operators we are interested in achieving enough signal to noise ratio SNR to be able to communicate. The signal part is provided by the reflected signal and the more power that is directed at the moon, the bigger the reflected signal received back on earth. The noise part of the equation is the total noise contribution from a number of sources. The total noise power is given by. The total noise temperature detected by the receiver is made up of three main parts.
These are. We have already seen that the sky noise temperature can be as low as 2. The bandwidth of the receiver is the noise bandwidth, pre-detector, and will depend on the modulation mode to be received.
In order to improve SNR we need to reduce something on the noise power side of the equation if we cannot increase transmit power.
Not much can be done to reduce Boltzmann's constant and the bandwidth is set by the mode of modulation in use. That leaves us with reducing the total system noise temperature in order to achieve better SNR. Sky temperature is already as low as we can expect post big bang and 14 billion years on! Antenna noise temperature is something we can do something about and is the subject of much antenna design and optimisation.
Likewise, receiver noise temperature is also something we can do something about. The number of operational stations on the intermediate bands of 2. The achievements of those EME amateurs using small systems is remarkable and seems set to become even more popular in the future. The following sections of this chapter cover equipment and techniques, as well as give guidance, to operating on the microwave EME bands up to 10GHz. Without doubt the 1. This is probably closely followed by 10GHz and then 2.
The possible reasons for this will be examined later in this chapter. Activity on 3. Since the techniques used for and MHz are very similar it makes sense to group them together for the purposes of this book. Where MHz does differ is that there is no common allocation for EME across all regions of the world due to differing requirements for mobile radio spectrum.
The vast majority of EME operation takes place between Circular polarisation is almost always used although the big attraction for the beginner to microwave EME may be the ability to make digital JT65C or JT4 QSOs with medium and large stations using just a single high gain Yagi, with elevation, and 50 to Watts of RF power. Ground gain is virtually non-existent on these bands, so elevation is desirable. Several yagi antennas can be phased for circular polarisation, but this introduces undesirable phasing line losses, so yagi equipped stations tend to use linear polarisation and accept the 3dB penalty when working circularly polarised stations.
In practice there is usually enough margin when working medium to large dish equipped stations, that the polarisation mismatch is not a big problem. Multiple yagi arrays can also be used, but care needs to be exercised to keep combining excess loss to a minimum. Often a single long yagi will outperform an array. With a single yagi system, the masthead preamp can be kept as close as possible to the antenna feed point to minimise losses and hence keep the noise figure low.
Long helix antennas would seem to offer a solution to the problem of circular polarisation. A signal reflected from the moon or any other object in front of the antenna will suffer a reversal of phase polarity. This means that the helix must be equipped for both right hand and left hand circular polarisation. The added complication of doing this is often not worth the effort. JT QSOs have been made with dishes as small as 1. Dish sizes of 3 metres and above and or more Watts will enable you to hear your own echoes and easily make CW QSOs.
Small dishes are more difficult to feed without overspill and side lobes. As you have read earlier, this makes the antenna noisy and the system noise figure are poorer. The consequence of this is that a QRO station with a small dish will tend to be "alligators" i. This can be mitigated by careful feed optimisation to minimise overspill and side lobes. The bare minimum 1. With hindsight, the Tonna 55 element has a poor side lobe pattern and hence inferior noise performance to something like a 67 element Wimo or a Powabeam.
While such a system is not recommended for a permanent installation, it makes a very good way of taking a small EME system out for holiday operation on 1. For a more permanent and CW-capable system for use from home, a dish with a minimum size of 2. The only difference with this system is the way that the antenna equipment is configured.
Remember that the sense of the polarisation reverses at moon reflection, meaning it "goes up Right Hand, comes down Left Hand". As these two ports are part of the same feed system, there is much less isolation between them; typically only 26dB for a well made CP feed compared to 80 dB for a good relay. With only 26dB isolation between transmit and receive ports, Watts on transmit will produce 1 Watt OUT of the receive port, destroying any preamp connected to it.
While no high power TX RX changeover relay is required, a relay must be used to isolate the receive port during Transmit. This configuration is shown in Figure 1Figure 2. During transmit, the relay disconnects the input to the preamp from the feed port and terminates it in 50 ohms. The coaxial relay need only be a low power one as all it has to do is to isolate and terminate the preamplifier input during transmit, keeping any fed-through transmit power from the sensitive LNA input.
The characteristics of 2. System design is fundamentally the same except that Yagis are rarely used on this band as they are more difficult to construct and optimise.
Combine this with the fact that the accepted polarisation is circular, dishes become the only sensible option. Despite this, 13cm is still a less popular band than one might expect based solely upon technical constraints, and activity tends to be much lower than at 23cm.
The main reason for this seems to be the "fractured" allocation of the band throughout the world. The available 13cm band is not consistent. Table 1 Worldwide 13cm band allocations used for EME shows the various 13cm allocations used throughout the world. This makes both equipment and operating slightly more complicated in that a means is needed to listen on a different frequency than you are licensed to transmit on.
Some form of cross band operation is needed to work certain countries. The band was then On Jan , the post authority in Japan allowed the operation on for amateurs for EME and all Japanese moonbouncers moved to The Therefore all Japanese operation is on - A similar approach can be used to work Japan with a separate MHz.
First, we need to remind ourselves that the noise power radiated by a "hot body" in our case, what the antenna is looking at is given by kTB Watts, where k is Boltzmann's constant, T is its temperature in Kelvin not "degrees Kelvin! In terrestrial systems your antenna is pointing at the horizon, so it is "looking at" some combination of "cold" sky at around 10K and ground, trees and houses at K. Typically for 1. These numbers don't take account of two factors. The constant noise added by the receiver, and any back or side lobes of the antenna.
These two factors will contribute to increasing that temperature and hence decreasing the difference between ground and cold sky measured by the antenna. Both these factors are under our control.
We can use low noise amplifier designs to minimise the noise contribution of the receiver, and we can design our antenna systems to have "clean" patterns with very low side lobes. The effect of horizon vs cold sky on system sensitivity and the results are summarised in Table 2 below.
Table 2 An example of the difference in sensitivity between elevated and horizon-pointing systems. Two things are interesting about these results. For the same receiver noise figure, the overall system noise figure including the antenna is degraded by the antenna's temperature and an improvement in overall system noise figure of about 1.
Similarly, small losses between the antenna and the preamplifier degrade your system sensitivity drastically. This explains why microwave EME systems and antennas are optimised, not for maximum gain, but for minimum side lobes and hence noise temperature. In the case of Yagis this means improving the front to back and side lobe performance by careful design and placing the preamplifier as close as possible to the antenna feed point.
For a dish, it's all about making sure that the feed only illuminates the dish, minimising "overspill" where the feed looks at the hot ground behind the dish, and of course mounting the preamplifier close to the feed.
23cm 1296MHz UHF RX/TX Preamplifier
Last year I was able to finally get my tower and MHz long Yagi up on the roof and back on the air again. Sky could hear me, but I couldn't hear him! I decided that I need to design and build a mast-mounted preamp for MHz and place on my tower near the beam. I am documenting my process to help others in similar situations.
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Because of their performance and design simplicity, both the W6PO 1 and WB5LUA 2 preamplifier designs have been the mainstay of many week signal enthusiasts receive systems on and MHz. This paper will address a simple way of eliminating low frequency intermod in both. Each design has provided state of the art noise figures and gains for many hams for many years. But, this doesn't happen without some tradeoffs. The ability to produce a good noise figure, assuming the FET of choice is up to the task, requires a low loss wide band input circuit. This in turn produces a amplifier that will amplify undesired signals as well as desired signals often resulting with unwanted intermod products. A typical preamplifier of either of these designs, schematic of WB5LUA design below will produce approximately. In most cases, Interfering signals above the desired operation frequency are normally not as strong or as plentiful as signals from MHz and down. It is the lower frequency's that cause most of the problems. Antennas do provide a filter function of sort with some low frequency signals, but with the brute power of a local FM radio stations, local TV stations, and pager networks, your receive antenna could sometimes be a hindrance by not having any directivity or having "Strange lobes" at frequencies it is not designed for.
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First and foremost, a high Q miniature Helical Band Function Pass filter passes only in-band signals. Other preamps let the whole world in! The preamp also features a unique noise test that not only proves it is working but also lets you measure how much outside noise may be degrading your reception. Under ideal conditions, keying the noise test will increase the S meter by a calibrated 10 dB. If you only see a 5 dB increase, then you have 5 dB of additional outside ambient noise of some kind.
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