Showing posts with label radio astronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label radio astronomy. Show all posts
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:  '...
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Listening in on the Deep Space Network

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  Not long ago we took the DISH satellite antenna off our roof.   For a while I resisted pleas to put the big thing on the curb for pickup. ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Arecibo Dish Antenna Seriously Damaged

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https://www.sciencealert.com/a-broken-cable-smashed-a-huge-hole-in-the-arecibo-observatory
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Saturday, August 1, 2020

SolderSmoke Podcast #224: Mars. Spurs. Bikes. SDR. NanoVNA. Antuino. MAILBAG

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SolderSmoke Podcast #224 is available: http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke224.mp3 1 August 2020 --The launch of Perseveranc...
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Friday, October 25, 2019

Radio Telescope Homebrewed from Cake Pans and Chicken Wire

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  https://altaonline.com/the-low-tech-search-for-signs-of-intelligent-life/?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Friday, April 26, 2019

Nobel Prize winner Joe Taylor, K1JT, Talks to a Radio Club

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Really great to see this session with Nobel Prize winner Joe Taylor, K1JT. I liked his comments on his use of his retirement office at Pr...
Saturday, October 6, 2018

Radio Astronomy Knack!

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This video has so much of the kind of stuff that interests us:  roadkill antennas.  3D printers.  Arduinos.  Raspberry Pi, And of course, ...