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May 25, 2025 Admin

ezRA (Easy Radio Astronomy): How to change Azimuth in a group of ezCol files after these were recorded using a parameter in ezCon 25/5/2025

The following parameters allow ezCon to override the azimuth or elevation embedded within the data files from ezCol and use

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May 25, 2025 Admin

First LRO PicoMuon detector weekly variation results 25 May 2025

This graph compares last week’s results with those found at a professional observatory in Finland (latter is neutron flux but

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May 24, 2025 Admin

Comparison of size of peaks on ezCol (ezRA) from LRO-H2 and LRO-H3 in last few days

See Powerpoint below: https://www.astronomy.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Comparison-data-collection-peaks-on-LRO-H2-and-LRO-H3-23-240525.pptx

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May 24, 2025 Admin

Ideal thickness for copper feed for cantenna at 1420 Mhz

The ideal thickness (gauge) of copper wire for the feed in a cantenna (typically for Wi-Fi at 2.4 GHz) depends on

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May 18, 2025 Admin

Components I have made for Mini-Antenna Testing Range for EUCARA conference September 2025

I am running a NanoVNA workshop at EUCARA 2025 at Harwell Campus and as part of this I am going

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May 18, 2025 Admin

X-Class and M-Class Solar Flares detected on LRO UKRAA 23.4KHz Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID) Detector 14/5/2025

I have overlaid data from the SID Monitoring Station (purple) onto my data (red) on picture below (SID Monitoring Station

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May 18, 2025 Admin

Hi Profile Search

Link below takes you to web-page where you can compare the hydrogen line spectra you have detected with your radio

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May 17, 2025 Admin

Making a 2nd cantenna for the antenna testing range in the NanoVNA workshop at EUCARA 2025

In September 2025, EUCARA is being held at Harwell Campus in UK. I am giving a talk and also running

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May 16, 2025 Admin

Linux Ubuntu for Radio Astronomy: Michiel Klaassen’s UKRAA CosmicWatch Muon Detector Data Analysis Python Script 16 May 2025

Michiel kindly wrote this script for me to help me analyse the data I have from my Muon Detectors –

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May 16, 2025 Admin

Linux Ubuntu for Radio Astronomy: Plotting events from Muon_Data_110425@0116.txt data file from UKRAA Cosmic Watch Muon Detectors using Michiel Klaassen’s Python scripts 16/5/2025

I am surprised at just how many events there are in this file – which started 11/4/2025 : 01:16! Michiel

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