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January 5, 2025 Admin

Recording peak of Quadrantid Meteor Show 2025 at LRO (peak 030125@0800)

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January 5, 2025 Admin

Pictures of LRO in snow 5 January 2025

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January 5, 2025 Admin

Notes on attenuation from responses to questions asked on SARA Mailing List 5 January 2025

My Question: Hi, Basic question- say I save 2dB here by changing coax and 2dB there by doing something else.

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January 5, 2025 Admin

Visit to Astronomical Observatory of Mansfield & Sutton, Nottinghamshire, December 2024 with Angella and Alan Rodgers

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January 5, 2025 Admin

Oakham Astronomy-themed beer mats seen in Lichfield December 2024

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January 2, 2025 Admin

Effect of changing 5m of RG58 coaxial cable into LMR400 coaxial cable

The following picture shows the theoretical improvement from making this change.

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January 2, 2025 Admin

Changing coaxial cable on Solar Cooker Radio Telescope at LRO 2/1/2025

My son and I have changed the coaxial cable on my 1.5m parabolic solar cooker radio telescope from 5m of

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January 1, 2025 Admin

Where to store multiple file save data files from IFAverage Plugin for SDR Sharp software (SDR#).

I have found that my installations default to desktop as storage location – however there seems to be something preventing

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December 21, 2024 Admin

Changing over to using SDR# and IFAverage on both LRO-H1 and LRO-H2 radio telescopes 21/12/2024

Having now mapped the Milky Way successfully using the Ptarmigan Array (LRO-H1) radio telescope over the last year, it is

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Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)
December 20, 2024 Admin

All viable LRO-H1(Ptarmigan) ezCol txt data files 06/01/2024-01/11/2024

Click on link below to download ZIP file of all viable Ptarmigan Array hydrogen data at LRO between 6 January

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Recent Posts

  • Muon detection using UKRAA Picomuon detector 17/6/2025
  • NanoVNA vs TinySA
  • 3D plot in Rinearn3D from Alex Pettit 13-element 1420 MHz Yagi at LRO clearly showing two spiral arms 0-90 degrees longitude (data up to 5/6/2025)
  • Linux Ubuntu for Radio Astronomy: Common causes and fixes when you’re already in the dialout group but still get “permission denied” when accessing /dev/ttyUSB0
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  1. Admin on LRO-H1 Map 2 (cf Wikipedia H-Line Map July 2024 proc 260425@2200) – labelled
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  4. Admin on Linux Ubuntu for Radio Astronomy: Michiel Klaassen’s UKRAA CosmicWatch Muon Detector Data Analysis Python Script 16 May 2025
  5. VK on Linux Ubuntu for Radio Astronomy: Michiel Klaassen’s UKRAA CosmicWatch Muon Detector Data Analysis Python Script 16 May 2025

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