After a few months of pulling together some key surplus X-Band equipment, USA-Satcom is happy to report successful first signals from both WGS-1 and DSCS-3 satellites.
Here are a couple of screenshots of X-Band waveforms from WGS-1 and DSCS-3.
Additional X-Band waveforms can be viewed here.
Here is the newly added Vertex RSI X-Band LNA and the very cool rectangular to circular waveguide transition with squeeze tube de-polarization provided by UHF-Satcom.com