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What free spreadsheet software is available to process very large PicoMuon data CSV files, which are too large for Microsoft Excel?

Admin June 28, 2026 No Comments

If you need a free Windows spreadsheet that can cope with very large spreadsheets, these are the best choices: 1. LibreOffice Calc (recommended by ChatGPT but I had difficulties installing…

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How to open DuckDB (command line database editor) which works with very large PicoMuon data files that are too big for Excel

Admin June 28, 2026 No Comments

If you’re asking how to open DuckDB on Windows, it depends on what you downloaded. If you have duckdb.exe, simply double-click it. A command window will open with a D>…

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How to cut a file in half with DuckDB, and also how to split by date?

Admin June 28, 2026 No Comments

One of the nicest features of DuckDB is that you don’t need to import a CSV before working with it. For example, if your file is called large.csv: View the…

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How to combine separate date and time columns into a single date-time column them filter by ID column = C then create Pivot table of events from Event column (where ID column = C) with horizontal access as hourly.

Admin June 28, 2026 No Comments

You can do all of that cleanly in DuckDB using one SQL pipeline: combine date+time → filter by ID → build hourly pivot. I’ll assume your CSV has columns like:…

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Key methods of extracting limited data sets from single very large file in DuckDB

Admin June 28, 2026 No Comments

Keep only the first 100,000 rows and save them COPY ( SELECT * FROM ‘large.csv’ LIMIT 100000 ) TO ‘small.csv’ (HEADER, DELIMITER ‘,’); Extract a range of rows (e.g. rows…

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How to select rows based on contents of cells in Excel during analysis of PicoMuon stand-alone data

Admin June 28, 2026 No Comments

In Excel, you typically do this with either IF, IFS, or lookup functions depending on what you mean by “select based on content”. Here are the most common patterns: 1)…

Leo Bodnar GPSDO (GPS-Disciplined Oscillator)

LBE-1420 GPSDO locked clock source : Leo Bodnar Electronics

Admin June 25, 2026 No Comments

This is an example of a clock source which can be used with SDRs that will accept external clocks for e.g. pulsar observations – the recommendation was made by a…

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What is Kalman filter for radio dish feedback?

Admin June 24, 2026 No Comments

A Kalman filter is a mathematical method used to estimate the true position and motion of a system when the measurements are noisy. For a radio dish, it can make…

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Comparing the Airspy Mini SDR with the RTL-SDR and equivalents for hydrogen line radio astronomy

Admin June 23, 2026 No Comments

The Airspy Mini has a maximum IQ sample rate of 6 MSPS, giving a maximum instantaneous bandwidth of approximately 6 MHz. However, there are a few subtleties: Available sample rates:…

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Is there any 100wh power bank with excellent reviews?

Admin June 22, 2026 No Comments

Yes — there are a few very well-reviewed ~100Wh (airline-safe) power banks, but they are almost all from established brands (Anker, Nitecore, Ugreen). The key point is: anything near 100Wh…

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