September 18, 2025
Rick, NY1V, also a 1.5M "Cooker" dish owner, and I ran some tests this morning with the 23cm degradation at -1.4db post-perigee. Declination was good, we were both elevated out of ground noise. Not only did we complete in Q65-60C mode, we upped the ante and completed smoothly on Q65-30B. We then pushed the envelope and with a few repeats completed a Q65-15A contact. Talk about being gob-stopped! All this is to say, in a very unscientific way, "The cooker cooks".
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| First 1.5M solar cooker to 1.5M solar cooker contact. |
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| Seeing is believing. Q65-15A. |