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August 28, 2025 Admin

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

Jason has set himself the challenge of designing and building such a dish – first step is design and he

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August 28, 2025 Admin

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

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

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August 28, 2025 Admin

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

Great question — this gets into radiometer theory and feed design. If you add a second probe into your WR-650 feed

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August 27, 2025 Admin

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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August 23, 2025 Admin

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

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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August 23, 2025 Admin

NanoVNAsaver Software Manuals

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

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August 23, 2025 Admin

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

You can move or copy a calendar between two Outlook accounts, but the method depends on whether you’re using desktop Outlook

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August 18, 2025 Admin

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

Here’s how to add a trusted file (i.e., exclude it from scans) in McAfee — the options vary slightly depending

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August 18, 2025 Admin

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

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August 17, 2025 Admin

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

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

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  • Jason Burnfield’s Design Calculator for Offset 3m Radio Astronomy Dish
  • Design of offset satellite dish – is it half a parabola?
  • Is it worth adding a second probe at 90 degrees to my cantenna waveguide on LRO-H2, my Solar Cooker Parabolic 150cm Radio Telescope?
  • Processing all data from the three hydrogen line telescopes at Lichfield Radio Observatory (LRO) from start of data collection until 17/8/2025
  • Museum of Liverpool building acts like a guitar sounding box reflecting sound as if a large were installed in it.

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