EEVblog 1547 (Part 3) - Tour of the NASA Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex
Part 3. Tour of the NASA Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex at Tidbinbilla, with Richard Stephenson
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00:00 - Tour of the NASA Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex at Tidbinbilla
04:00 - Does the wind add any jitter?
04:29 - The new 34m Beam Waveguide Antennas
06:10 - The 400kW Klystron!
08:33 - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter tracking
10:34 - Upgrading Low Noise Amplifiers from Maser to MEMT
11:39 - LNA downconverters to 300MHz IF
12:14 - generator!
13:11 - How is this different to Parkes?
15:07 - Doppler shift
17:05 - Hydrogen Maser
18:00 - Why in a valley?
19:08 - Why worry about external RF?
20:09 - Transmit Mask
21:01 - The bearings
21:50 - Birds
22:29 - End of an Era for 70m dishes?
25:04 - Still the only game in town
26:15 - The original moon walk dish
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