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VLF Radio Detection of SIDs (Very low Frequency detection of Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances)

I am making VLF aerial out of 22 SWG enamelled copper wire about 150m long, wound around a wooden cross multiple times. How important is exactly length of the wire?

Admin February 20, 2026 No Comments

For a VLF receiving loop, the exact wire length is usually far less critical than people expect. At VLF (about 3–30 kHz): So you are not building a resonant half-wave…

VLF Radio Detection of SIDs (Very low Frequency detection of Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances)

Success using direct USB audio soundcard input from VLF aerial (with serial 10 uF capacitor) at LRO 20/2/2026 @ 21:20 UTC

Admin February 20, 2026 No Comments

Success with detection! Bits and pieces arrived to make new aerial – and attached are test screenshots from Spectrum Lab – 6 stations seen clearly. This time, for some reason,…

Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)

Can Hammerite Paint be used in paint sprayer on Radio astronomy dishes?

Admin February 20, 2026 No Comments

Note this post doesn’t look any question about whether the paint affects signal reception. It only addresses whether the paint will work with a paint sprayer. **Hammerite** paint can be…

GNU Radio

Where did name Soapy come from in Soapy drivers, such as available in GNU Radio?

Admin February 18, 2026 No Comments

The name “Soapy” in SoapySDR (and the associated Soapy drivers) comes from the idea of making SDR hardware support clean and simple — as in “soap makes things clean.” SoapySDR…

VLF Radio Detection of SIDs (Very low Frequency detection of Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances)

How big is the area of a cosmic ray burst is at ground level?

Admin February 18, 2026 No Comments

This question is relevant to considering how close two observers need to be to each other in order to observe the same muon cascades, and hence obtain similar muon detections/have…

Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)

What is difference between balanced and unbalanced on microphone input?

Admin February 16, 2026 No Comments

This is one of those things that sounds boring until it suddenly explains all your noise problems. Alright — let’s break it down in human terms. 🎙️ Unbalanced microphone input…

Linux for Radio Astronomy

How to restore a Veeam server-led Linux backup (Agent managed by Backup & Replication) as a bare-metal / full image restore

Admin February 16, 2026 No Comments

To restore a Veeam server-led Linux backup (Agent managed by Backup & Replication) as a bare-metal / full image restore, you must use Veeam Recovery Media — not just file-level…

Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)

How does a modern software defined radio attain an less erratic noise floor than older amateur radio sets?

Admin February 15, 2026 No Comments

The answer isn’t “magic DSP.” It’s architecture. And a bit of ruthless engineering discipline. Modern SDRs don’t actually have “less noise” in the physics sense — they have more stable,…

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How does a mutual ground level form between receiver and transmitter at distance from each other? And how does this apply to radio astronomy?

Admin February 15, 2026 No Comments

This is one of those things that feels mystical until you unpack it — then it’s just physics quietly doing its thing. Short answer:There isn’t really a “mutual ground level”…

Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)

What is a Pin Diode?

Admin February 15, 2026 No Comments

Absolute workhorse of RF switching. WHAT IS A PIN DIODE? A PIN diode is a semiconductor diode with three layers: The middle layer is a thick, undoped (intrinsic) region. That…

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