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Two lessons I have learnt about practical aspects of radio-astronomy
Two important lessons I have learnt over last week,.by making these errors:
Mounting the Ptarmigan Triffid Military Phased Array to allow altitude to be varied.
Photos below show my attempt today to mount the array so that I can aim at Zenith and vary altitude between horizon and Zenith. I have yet to try it…
Successful detection of galactic atomic hydrogen in Milky Way using Ptarmigan Triffid Military Phased Array 21-22/9/23 in Lichfield, UK
I successfully detected hydrogen for first time using SDR, hydrogen HNA, pre-amp, DC block, and SDR# (using version of SDR# software provided in SARA Scope in a Box software package).…
Ptarmigan Triffid Military Phased Array Sept 2023
I have been given this incredible aerial/antenna this month – it a military phased array tuned to roughly the correct wavelength for hydrogen (1420MHz) with (I am told) a resolution…
Live meteor observations from Lichfield Radio Observatory
Click on link below to access live observations of meteor detection at Lichfield Radio Observatory, detected by radio scatter from Graves (143.049MHz). https://www.rmob.org/#Andrew Thornett
Lyrid Radio Meteor Scatter from Graves on 143.050 MHz Observation Attempt 21/4/2012
Click on link below to download PDF: https://www.astronomy.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/LRO-Lyrid-radio-observations-210412.pdf Unfortunately, this attempt was unsuccessful: Shows my young son, Rhys, and my friend Damian!