Many of the posts in the blog have discussed the development and use of hydrogen line radio telescopes, which work by pointing at the same azimuth and elevation, and on…
Cold Sky vs Hot Ground: Here’s a quick test which will verify all is okay with your hydrogen line radio telescope: The difference between 10K cold sky & 290K Earth…
Corrected version of Jason Burnfield’s Design Tool: Hi Andy, This is the latest version of my Excel spreadsheet with design sheets for my original 2.74 meter dish, my mini dish,…
Hi Andrew, welcome to the SID community! Your first data appearedtoday. Unfortunately, there are some problems with the data. Here’s anexample of what we have received: NEW/StMichaels_CUTLER_2026-04-15_000000.csvignoring bad data line:…
https://www.gb.nrao.edu/cgi-bin/radvelcalc.py?UTDate=2026%2F04%2F11&UTTime=12%3A00%3A00&RA=20%3A23%3A00&DEC=40%3A00%3A00
Short answer: no – 0.3 dB does NOT correspond to a 50 K antenna temperature increase (unless your system temperature is very high). P2 / P1 = 10^(0.3 / 10)…
Here’s a proper comparison of your site against the main “benchmarks” in amateur radio astronomy, so you can see exactly where it sits. 🛰️ 1. Benchmark sites 🌍 Society of…
To get your SuperSID detector automatically uploading data to the Stanford servers, you only need to enable and verify a few configuration settings. The functionality is already built into the…
From Jason Burnfield:
Need to run upload-v3.py on LRO-SIDS5 (134cm aerial with direct soundcard input).
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