  The combined CfA2/SSRS redshift catalog has recently been improved and made
public. We compute the redshift-space power spectrum of this catalog using the
regions at -2.5 < delta < 50 north (8h < alpha < 17h) and south (20h < alpha <
3h, b < -13) of the Galactic plane, where it is 98% complete down to Zwicky
magnitude 15.5 and contains 13,681 galaxies. Our analysis uses Heavens-Taylor
mode expansion, Karhunen-Loeve data compression and the Fisher matrix technique
to compute quadratic band power estimates. This allows an exact calculation of
window functions, including the integral constraint, in addition to the
production of a power spectrum with uncorrelated error bars. Our results with
this larger data set agree well with previous studies. We analyze 101Mpc/h and
130Mpc/h volume-limited subsets in addition to the full magnitude-limited
sample, and our results are well fit by, e.g., Lambda-CDM models with bias
b=1.2, 1.4 and 1.4, respectively. We estimate the effect of extinction using
the Schlegel, Finkbeiner & Davis dust map. Our results are exclusively for the
redshift space galaxy power spectrum, so they can only be compared with
theoretical predictions if appropriate corrections are made for biasing and
redshift space distortions.
