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Astronomy observatory in Staffordshire, England.

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Jason Burnfield’s Design Calculator for Offset 3m Radio Astronomy Dish

Admin August 28, 2025 No Comments

Jason has set himself the challenge of designing and building such a dish – first step is design and he has created an Excel Spreadsheet calculator for this purpose –…

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Design of offset satellite dish – is it half a parabola?

Admin August 28, 2025 No Comments

An offset satellite dish is not literally “half a parabola,” though it is related to a parabola. Here’s the distinction: So, instead of being “half a parabola,” an offset dish…

LRO-H2 Radio Telescope (150cm Solar Cooker Dish) Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)

Is it worth adding a second probe at 90 degrees to my cantenna waveguide on LRO-H2, my Solar Cooker Parabolic 150cm Radio Telescope?

Admin August 28, 2025 No Comments

Great question — this gets into radiometer theory and feed design. If you add a second probe into your WR-650 feed at 1420 MHz, what happens depends on how you…

Radio observation in hydrogen line (1420MHz)

Processing all data from the three hydrogen line telescopes at Lichfield Radio Observatory (LRO) from start of data collection until 17/8/2025

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Museum of Liverpool building acts like a guitar sounding box reflecting sound as if a large were installed in it.

Admin August 23, 2025 No Comments

There is no speaker on this building! Physics in action https://www.astronomy.me.uk/wp-admin/upload.php?item=14185 https://www.astronomy.me.uk/wp-admin/upload.php?item=14186

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NanoVNAsaver Software Manuals

Admin August 23, 2025 No Comments

https://github.com/NanoVNA-Saver/NanoVNA_Software/blob/main/software_users_manual_r23.pdf https://github.com/NanoVNA-Saver http://www.spencerweb.net/Downloads/NanoVNA/nanovna.html https://new.zs1sci.com/posts/nanovnasaver

Attending & talking at conferences, workshops & societies

How to move calender from one account to another, when both are Microsoft Outlook accounts.

Admin August 23, 2025 No Comments

You can move or copy a calendar between two Outlook accounts, but the method depends on whether you’re using desktop Outlook (Windows/Mac) or Outlook on the Web. Here are the…

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How to add a Trusted File in McAfee to prevent the antivirus software quarantining it

Admin August 18, 2025 No Comments

Here’s how to add a trusted file (i.e., exclude it from scans) in McAfee — the options vary slightly depending on the version you’re using: Adding a Trusted File to…

Attending & talking at conferences, workshops & societies

EuCARA 2025 Advertisement (European Conference on Amateur Radio Astronomy), Harwell Campus, UK, September 2025

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Muon Detection

Grafana Dashboard for my pair of UKRAA Cosmicwatch Muon Detectors still shows cyclical variation in levels every few hours

Admin August 17, 2025 No Comments

I moved them away from power sockets and still show this cyclical variation below.

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