Re: Amatuer radio astronomy
- From: Dan Mckenna <dmckenna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 17:38:08 -0700
Paul Murphy wrote:
Yes, I have explored Radio Astronomy from time to time and find it a good answer to clouds and daylight. It is getting harder to do because of interference but can be rewarding from a technical aspect (weak signals and all that) as well as an interesting venture into Astronomy.Are any of you (alone or as part of a club) doing any radio-astronomy?
SETI is a good example of deep fishing..no real chance of results in a lifetime but if you do it's a really big fish!
Solar monitoring is more possible than ever with sat dishes and cheap LNB technology.
Radio detection of meteor pings is easy and with computer/sound card audio spectrum analysis can provide useful data.
Amateur radio moon bounce (EME) is also fun to play with as some have lowered there power to a few watts and received an echo all be it with a large dish.
Large antennas can become quite a boy toy as most armature astronomers talk about inches and we dish people like many meters.
With modern low noise receivers and large satellite dishes one could find supernova within the galactic plane where the optical absorption is high enough to evade optical detection.
The interaction of solar born events and our way upper atmosphere (waygonosphere) is a source of ELF in the 1000's of Hz (audio) and can be received with modest equipment.
Using HF receivers the noise storms from jupiter are easy to receive and we are nearing the solar minimum where results are best.
OK then, I hope you live in a place with land, few power lines and like antennas as they are the optics we radio heads use.
Best of luck
Dan .
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