"Owen Duffy" wrote in message
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For those interested in confirming beamwidth of a large aperture dish at
microwave frequencies, the following article describes a method using Sun
noise as a measurement source:
http://www.vk1od.net/nfm/application...ernFromSun.htm .

Owen

Hi Owen,
I have done this to plot the pattern of my 1296 14' EME dish- using both a
GR1236 meter and more recently with an SDR-IQ receiver on the output of my
transverter.

Dale W4OP