last Tuesday, I tried the antenna on Sun, but no joy..
After I checked the whole thing once again (cables, matching, feeder.. everything seemed to be in order) the conclusion is: 1.4GHz signal from Sun is still below the noise floor of the receiver (Elonics tuner, <4dB NF).
Well, since the company I currently work for as contractor decided to offer me an extension, I decided to celebrate this happy event with
preamplifier from Minicircuits . It will arrive on Friday, so weekend wil be busy again (I hope.. in principle, I could easily do it through the clouds, provided I had setting circles on the antenna, which I don't.. yet.)