Dedispersion is a signal-processing technique used in radio astronomy to correct for the effect of interstellar dispersion—the way radio waves get “smeared out” as they travel through space. 🌌 What…
Hi Andrew I have attached two files (accessible via link at bottom of this post), which need to be copied onto the RPi. I have changed their names because a…
Got it — you mean the next size up from the Yaesu G-5500DC antenna rotator. Short answer: there is no direct “next model up” that is the same type. Moving…
The Yaesu G-5500DC doesn’t have a single simple “load capacity” like a crane or mount — Yaesu specifies it using several related limits. The key figures are: ✅ Primary load…
Short answer: there’s no clearly published “official” payload figure for the TV1 Minimaster mount itself—but you can still estimate it fairly reliably from comparable hardware and its intended use. What…
Yes — but there’s an important distinction that matters for your use case: 👉 Most cheap USB inclinometer devices are USB-rechargeable only (power),👉 Very few actually output angle data over…
Yes — there are self-contained telescope pointing systems, but they come in a few different flavours depending on how “universal” and “self-contained” you want. The key term to look for…
At 20 kHz you’re really designing a resonant system, not just adding a tuner box. For your kind of radio astronomy / interferometry work, the most practical approach is a…
From Brian Coleman: Hello Andrew, Looking at your photo the feed looks much too close to the dish. You need to calculate the focus point of the dish. The phase…
Yes—central obstruction from your feed does matter for a hydrogen line (1420 MHz) dish, but how much it matters depends on your goals and geometry. What central obstruction does When…
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