[time-nuts] thunderbolts not seeing satellites

James R. Gorr n3toy at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 5 05:30:15 UTC 2010


It took some time, but I got both to work when connected directly to the antenna.  

So I would have to think that the antenna (or the LNA) has degraded over time and is producing very marginal signal strength, barely enough for the Tbolts to operate.  I am happy my Tbols are fine!  The Lucent antenna I am using is the one Björn posted a photo of.  I do have an HP 53582A and a Motorola antenna (I think the Motorola antenna only has 26db of gain like the Lucent).  

I guess the Tbolts just require a little more signal strength to operate properly.

Thanks Said for the gentle pointer to the recent discussion.  With the baby I don't get as much time to keep up with the list and I missed the whole thread.

I will make a new mount for my HP antenna and get it up on the roof.  I don't have the snow issues in Las Vegas that others might have. :-)

Jamie

--- On Sun, 1/3/10, saidjack at aol.com <saidjack at aol.com> wrote:

> From: saidjack at aol.com <saidjack at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] thunderbolts not seeing satellites
> To: time-nuts at febo.com
> Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 5:56 PM
> Hello Jamie,
>  
> about a month ago there was a long thread that thoroughly
> discussed  the 
> problems folks have been seeing when running Thunderbolts
> through  splitters.
> 
> You may want to search the archive, and take a look..
>  
> bye,
> Said
>  
>  
> In a message dated 1/3/2010 17:42:07 Pacific Standard
> Time,  
> jltran at worldnet.att.net
> writes:
> 
> Have you  tried running it directly to the antenna,
> minus the  splitter?
> 
> Joe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  time-nuts-bounces at febo.com
> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]
> On
> Behalf Of  James R. Gorr
> Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 2:14 PM
> To:  time-nuts at febo.com
> Subject: [time-nuts] thunderbolts not seeing 
> satellites
> 
> 
> 
> Hello everyone! Hope your new year is going well so 
> far.
> 
> I have two Tbolts (one from TAPR and one from another guy),
> and  neither one
> is locking on  satellites.
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