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January 13, 2025 Admin

Comparing specifications of range of software defined radios that can be used for hydrogen line Amateur Radio Astronomy with small dishes.

Detecting the hydrogen line at 1420.4058 MHz is a popular project among amateur radio astronomers, and several software-defined radios (SDRs)

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January 13, 2025 Admin

Smallest antenna that can detect hydrogen in Milky Way

Detecting the 21 cm hydrogen line (the characteristic emission from neutral hydrogen in the Milky Way) requires a radio antenna

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January 11, 2025 Admin

Compare performance and attenuation standard LMR-600 and flexible LMR-600 coaxial cables

This page has been created with the help of ChatGPT 11/1/2025. Compare performance and attenuation standard LMR-600 and flexible LMR-600

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January 9, 2025 Admin

4D (3 spatial dimensions) mapping of Milky Way arms generated using data from LRO-H1(Ptarmigan) radio telescope obtained 29/5/2024-17/8/2024 and used to create the second Milky Way map from LRO in 2024. Today’s images processed in Rinearn3D on 9/1/2025.

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January 8, 2025 Admin

Comparison of results from processing LRO-H1(Ptarmigan Array Data) collected by ezCol.py (ezRA software suite) with two filter arrangements 1st to 8th January 2025

Filter arrangement 1: Ptarmigan Dipole Array ==> WT Microwave 1418-1422 MHz Cavity Filter ==> Nooelec SAWBird LNA ==> RTL-SDR Blog

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January 8, 2025 Admin

Potential arrangements of Nooelec SAWBird H1, Nooelec LANA low-noise amplifier, and WT Microwave 1420MHz narrow band cavity filter, to improve radio-astronomy detection of hydrogen line.

Insertion Loss in Nooelec SAWBird H1: The Nooelec SAWbird+ H1 is a self-contained low-noise amplifier (LNA) module designed for hydrogen

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January 6, 2025 Admin

Mapping LRO-H1(Ptarmigan)data 290524-180824 to sphere (inside & outside views) 5/1/2025

These plots have been produced using data from Lichfield Radio Observatory (LRO) between 29 May 2024 and 18 August 2024,

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January 6, 2025 Admin

Alex Pettit’s evaluation of October 2024 data set from my Ptarmigan Array radio telescope compared to two other radio telescope systems 6/1/2025

Shows very low power levels on my system compared to the two comparators. Andy

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January 5, 2025 Admin

Importance of placement of LNA (Low Noise Amplifier) close to dish and not close to receiver

From: ‘Alex P’ via Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers <sara-list@googlegroups.com>Sent: 04 January 2025 10:28To: Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers <sara-list@googlegroups.com>Subject:

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January 5, 2025 Admin

Attenuation of signal due to radio connector adapters

From: ‘Alex P’ via Society of Amateur Radio AstronomersSent: 04 January 2025 10:28To: Society of Amateur Radio AstronomersSubject: [SARA] Re:

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