Showing posts with label radio astronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label radio astronomy. Show all posts
Saturday, October 4, 2025

Faraday Cages and the Square Kilometer Array

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  https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/02/ska_datacenter_construction_progress_report/
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Monday, August 25, 2025

The World's Largest Radio Telescope -- It is in the Netherlands

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This video is in Dutch, but you can easily turn on the English subtitles.   I put this on the blog for a couple of reasons:  Radio astronomy...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

The Red-Shifted Neutral Hydrogen Signal from the Cosmic Dark Ages is in the Range of our Direct Conversion Receiver

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On the flight to the Dominican Republic I was listening to Fraser Cain's interview with Dr. Christiaan Brinkerink.   I was kind of blown...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Radio Astronomy RFI from Starlink

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https://futurism.com/spacex-starlink-satellites-radio-signal-emissions
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Phil W1PJE, Director of MIT's Haystack Observatory, visits SolderSmoke East, Talks Radio with N2CQR and KK4DAS

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We were very pleased that Phil W1PJE was able to visit yesterday. Phil is the Director of MIT's Haystack Observatory . He is very know...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

MIT's Haystack Observatory and Dr. Herb Weiss

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We are really privileged to have among us ( and in the SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Hall of Fame) Phil Erickson W1PJE.   Phil is the Direc...
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Friday, April 19, 2024

Deep Space Station 43 -- Canberra, Australia

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  https://spectrum.ieee.org/apollo-era-antenna-voyager-2 From the IEEE article:   The dish’s manufacturer took great pains to ensure that it...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

RIP Arno Penzias -- Co-discoverer of the Big Bang Cosmic Background Radiaton

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  Penzias on the right Here it the Penzias Obituary: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/24/1226572843/arno-penzias-obituary-big-bang-theory I think...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

The Art of Electronics #5 Paul Horowitz on SETI (and lots of other radio stuff)

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In 2016 Paul Horowitz  talked about SETI at Google.  Fascinating stuff.  Paul did an especially good job of weaving in a lot of radio/electr...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Save the Antenna!

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SolderSmoke fans have an interest in saving this antenna because it is the site of one of the most amazing RF troubleshooting stories of all...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Ruby Payne-Scott and Early Australian Radio Astronomy

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Click on the cartoon for a better view Read the full article here:  https://womenyoushouldknow.net/ruby-payne-scott-first-woman-radio-astron...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Looking at the Galaxy's Spiral Arms with a Dongle, a Raspberry Pi,and a Homebrew Antenna

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I told Farhan that the world NEEDS a homebrew Raspberry Pi observatory at Lamakaan in Hyderabad. They are on it.   This looks very do-able. ...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2021

SETI, Proxima Centauri, The Parkes Dish, and Intermodulation Distortion?

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  https://www.sciencealert.com/exciting-mystery-space-technosignals-were-indeed-produced-by-sentient-life-us A cosmically interesting troubl...
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Monday, September 20, 2021

Opening up an Apollo Command Module Microwave Radio System

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So much radio goodness in this video.  The enthusiasm of the narrator is unmistakable, and entirely justified.  A number of things struck me...
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Sunday, April 4, 2021

A Satellite Ground Station (Receiver) Made from Junk

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Very cool.  This guy (who brew up on an island in Alaska) really knows how to use aluminum tape and the junk that fills most workshops. I li...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

"The Dish" Turns 60

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  Thanks to Peter VK2EMU for alerting us to this important birthday.   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-26/parkes-dish-will-assist-first-...
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Sunday, December 20, 2020

The Parkes Radio Telescope Picks Up a Possible "Wow" Signal from Proxima Centauri (maybe)

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An article about SETI and our favorite dish.  From Scientific American:   https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-hunters-discover-...
Friday, December 4, 2020

The Terrible Collapse of the Arecibo Dish: Climate Change, Hurricane Maria, and Funding Cuts. Also: China's New Dish

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From  https://www.thewrap.com/watch-crazy-footage-of-the-arecibo-observatory-collapse-goldeneye-video/   : "Alas, over the 2010s it w...
Friday, November 27, 2020

6EQUJ5 -- SNR, the Big Ear Radio Telescope, and the "Wow" Signal

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https://hackaday.com/2020/11/25/the-wow-signal-and-the-search-for-extraterrestrial-intelligence/#more-448808 This Hack-A-Day article explain...
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Saturday, November 14, 2020

The Dish -- Virtual Tour -- New Indigenous Name

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Thanks to Peter VK2EMU for this update on the Parkes radio telescope.  Parkes is the subject of our favorite  movie about an antenna:  '...