Just after finishing the construction of the new antenna we started to test the new radio station. The low noise amplifiers and the power amplifiers were installed at the top of the building in a small room. The other parts were put together in our room at the Institute of Continuing Engineering Education. The “real test” was receiving signals from a satellite. It was successfully accomplished. The signals of the reference satellite (80mW, cw, 2800 km) were much stronger here. We still have to finish building the IT part of the control and finish our special control and demodulator software.

Pictures taken during the test