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Out of curiosity, the "received power" shown for a spacecraft on NASA's "DSN now" web page 1 - is that at the receiver, or at the antenna?

I'm looking at one of the antennas now receiving data from Voyager 1 and it states the signal strength is -160 dBm. If that's at the antenna it's a crazy low signal level... if it's at the receiver, after the antenna's gain, it's even more crazy!

Screenshot at 2023-05-25, 19.03.42 UTC showing Voyager 1 being received by 70 meter DSS 63 Madrid at -160 dBm:

Screenshot at 2023-05-25, 19.03.42 UTC of https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html at 2023-05-25, 19.03.42 UTC showing Voyager 1 being received by 70 meter DSS 63 Madrid https://www.mdscc.nasa.gov/index.php/en/dss-63-2/ at -160 dBm

Out of curiosity, the "received power" shown for a spacecraft on NASA's "DSN now" web page 1 - is that at the receiver, or at the antenna?

I'm looking at one of the antennas now receiving data from Voyager 1 and it states the signal strength is -160 dBm. If that's at the antenna it's a crazy low signal level... if it's at the receiver, after the antenna's gain, it's even more crazy!

Out of curiosity, the "received power" shown for a spacecraft on NASA's "DSN now" web page 1 - is that at the receiver, or at the antenna?

I'm looking at one of the antennas now receiving data from Voyager 1 and it states the signal strength is -160 dBm. If that's at the antenna it's a crazy low signal level... if it's at the receiver, after the antenna's gain, it's even more crazy!

Screenshot at 2023-05-25, 19.03.42 UTC showing Voyager 1 being received by 70 meter DSS 63 Madrid at -160 dBm:

Screenshot at 2023-05-25, 19.03.42 UTC of https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html at 2023-05-25, 19.03.42 UTC showing Voyager 1 being received by 70 meter DSS 63 Madrid https://www.mdscc.nasa.gov/index.php/en/dss-63-2/ at -160 dBm

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"Received power" on NASA's DSN web have

Out of curiosity, the "received power" shown for a spacecraft on NASA's "DSN now" web page 1 - is that at the receiver, or at the antenna?

I'm looking at one of the antennas now receiving data from Voyager 1 and it states the signal strength is -160 dBm. If that's at the antenna it's a crazy low signal level... if it's at the receiver, after the antenna's gain, it's even more crazy!