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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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Meteor detection by radio
December 15, 2024 Admin

LRO data Geminid meteor shower plotted on RMOB website 15/12/2024

My data (LRO) indicates that the peak of the 2024 Geminids was around 4-6am on 14 December 2024 UTC, with

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Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)Solar Cooker 1.5m Parabolic Dish Radio Telescope
December 13, 2024 Admin

Processing all data to date Solar Cooker RT 2 Nov 2024-13 Dec 2024

I have processed all the data I have collected so far using my new radio telescope made from a 1.5m

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