UK Amateur Radio Astronomy

[Tom Azlin N4ZPT]

Hi Frank,

There is also the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) found at 
http://www.radio-astronomy.org/

Their email reflector has had some discussion of an RA specific SDR 
project. Some also use the USRP.

Meetings at NRAO Greenbank every Summer plus they are at Dayton every year.

73, tom n4zpt

On 10/6/2011 1:39 PM, fgentges at mindspring.com wrote:
> tacoistas,
>
> There is some good work going on in amateur radio astronomy in the UK. I
> ran across a nice web page that was linked from the FunCubeDongle news
> group over at Yahoo. Note that the builder how has then in stock. See
>
> http://www.funcubedongle.com/
>
> There is a British Astronomical Association and they have meetings and a
> nice web page on radio astronomy at
>
> http://www.britastro.org/radio/
>
> Dr David Morgan has been doing a lot of fun stuff and has written up
> some nice papers which are linked on that web page.
>
> An SDR Radio Telescope at:
> http://www.britastro.org/radio/projects/An_SDR_Radio_Telescope.pdf
>
> A Radio Telescope Pre-Amplifier Head at:
> http://www.britastro.org/radio/projects/Radio_Telescope_Preamplifier_Head.pdf
>
>
> Construction of a 3m Parabolic dish for 1420MHz at:
> http://www.britastro.org/radio/projects/Construction_of_an_Amateur_Radio_Astronomy_Antenna.pdf
>
>
> Amateur Radio Astronomy Measurements of Galactic Neutral Hydrogen
> Distribution at:
> http://www.britastro.org/radio/projects/Hydrogen_Line.pdf
>
> and finally at a lower frequency with a couple of yagis a paper
> Detection of Extra Galactic Radio Source Virgo A at:
> http://www.britastro.org/radio/projects/Detection_of_Radio_Source_VIRGO_A.pdf
>
>
> These fun papers should get your juices flowing and all show things well
> within the reach of radio amateurs. It looks like there is lots more you
> can find here. If you were interested by our visit to the NRAO at Green
> Bank then some of this may tickle you into some more thought and action.
>
> I have interest in using the Charleston receiver to simultaneously
> resolving the different Doppler shifts of the neutral hydrogen line of
> the milky way. See the hydrogen line paper page 3 where he shows how how
> can resolve the different Doppler peaks with an IC-R7000. With a
> suitable down converter the Charleston should do this and more.
>
> Frank K0BRA
>
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