Processing first light data from solar cooker radio telescope 6/10/2024
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Hot off the press! – only 2 elevation points – data from this week.
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Next stage 1.5m solar cooker radio dish 3/10/2024
Some cheap aluminium + zinc spray paint purchased from Lidl, UK, and using my cantenna cut for hydrogen as feedhorn.
Erecting the 150cm (1.5m) Solar Cooker Dish at LRO, and calculating its focal length 28/9/2024
Here is a photo of the dish erected at LRO: Using Parabola Calculator 2 program (Parabola Calculator version 2.0 (tripod.com) https://mscir.tripod.com/parabola/), the dimensions and focal length of my solar cooker…
Assembling solar cooker dish from ebay
First part of assembly process – it is quite big! (1.5m) Andy
Resoldering Alex Pettit 21cm Yagi using lead-based solder with Rosin
we think this aerial is not effective because of poor solder connection. I used lead-free solder and this may have meant that the solder joint was poor, so today some…
Ptarmigan Triffid Dipole Array
Subject: RAG – Triffid Antenna Hi Andy I asked a former colleague from work to help identify your antenna. He had direct oversight of the Ptarmigan and Triffid projects whilst…
Solar Cooker purchased from ebay September 2024
This was mentioned on SARA mailing list – and then I saw someone selling one on ebay UK for £50, unused! This is effectively a 1.5m satellite dish which concentrates…
SARA Scope in Box Package, and ezRA Software Suite used for hydrogen radio mapping experiments at LRO and list of hardware components accessible in UK 14/9/2024.
The hydrogen radio mapping project was produced by the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomy (SARA), based in the USA (https://www.radio-astronomy.org/node/366). Software and instructions for this project can be found below,…
Latest results of processing all available hydrogen data mapping Milky Way using Ptarmigan Array @ LRO 31/10/2024-10/9/2024
Software used: I am incredibly grateful to Ted Cline for his wonderful ezRA suite software, which was used for data collection and analysis here. The data below has not been…