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Admin January 14, 2026 No Comments

The information provided on this website is provided for reference purposes only. It is my personal development blog, and is not intended to act as an educational lr advisory tool…

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Temperature response of UKRAA PicoMuon Muon Detector

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Response originally posted by Andrew Tgomas on muondetector groups.io mailing list 26/5/2026: The picoMuon will behave oddly and even stop working if it gets too hot. This usually manifests as…

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The gain of a hydrogen horn or dish depends on its aperture which makes sense as bigger aperture means more light collected. But how does this work with a Yagi antenna tuned to hydrogen?

Admin May 27, 2026 No Comments

A Yagi works by a different mechanism from a dish or horn, but the same underlying principle still applies: For any antenna, gain and effective aperture are linked by: where:…

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It is commonly stated that acceptable error in flare angle on a SETI Horn of Plenty is lambda/4. Why is this amount chosen?

Admin May 27, 2026 No Comments

The commonly quoted lambda/4 criterion is not really a limit on the flare angle itself; it is a limit on the resulting path-length or surface-position error caused by a construction…

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Can an existing SETI Horn of Plenty (Hydrogen Line Horn) be extended by adding an extension on the front? Practical answer and more detailed explanation of physics involved.

Admin May 26, 2026 No Comments

On Monday, May 25, 2026 at 1:09:30 AM UTC-7 Andrew Thornett wrote: Can a horn be made larger simply by adding an extension to end of same flare angle, or does…

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Am I getting reasonable performance from my SETI Horn of Plenty at LRO (Hydrogen Line)?

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Answer by Jason Burnfield: On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 1:33 AM Andrew Thornett wrote: Can I ask you for your back of envelope dB calculation on the trace from my…

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How would I convert the plots on ezCon from ezRA (Easy Radio Astronomy Software written by Ted Cline) into dB?

Admin May 26, 2026 No Comments

In ezRA’s ezCon, the plotted values are usually displayed in the raw linear units from the processed data files. If you want to express them in decibels (dB), the conversion…

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Friend said he used vacuum cleaner to blow string through plastic conduit 50m so he could then pull CAT5 cable though. Does that work?

Admin May 25, 2026 No Comments

Yes, that can work, and it’s a fairly common trick for long conduit runs. The usual method is: For a 50 m conduit, suction is often more effective than trying…

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What balanced amplifiers could be used on a VLF loop antenna?

Admin May 25, 2026 No Comments

For a VLF loop antenna (typically covering a few kHz up to perhaps 30–300 kHz), a balanced amplifier should ideally have: Several approaches work well: Instrumentation Amplifiers These are often…

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RF choke designs

Admin May 25, 2026 No Comments

An RF choke is an inductor designed to present a high impedance to radio-frequency currents while allowing DC or low-frequency currents to pass. The best design depends on the frequency…

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HP10509A Circular Loop Antenna.

Admin May 25, 2026 No Comments

The HP 10509A Circular Loop Antenna is a specialized active magnetic-loop receiving antenna developed by Hewlett-Packard in the early 1960s. It was originally supplied with the HP 117A VLF Comparator…

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Recent Posts

  • Temperature response of UKRAA PicoMuon Muon Detector
  • The gain of a hydrogen horn or dish depends on its aperture which makes sense as bigger aperture means more light collected. But how does this work with a Yagi antenna tuned to hydrogen?
  • It is commonly stated that acceptable error in flare angle on a SETI Horn of Plenty is lambda/4. Why is this amount chosen?
  • Can an existing SETI Horn of Plenty (Hydrogen Line Horn) be extended by adding an extension on the front? Practical answer and more detailed explanation of physics involved.
  • Am I getting reasonable performance from my SETI Horn of Plenty at LRO (Hydrogen Line)?

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  1. Admin on My 150cm LRO-H2 hydrogen line radio telescope is pointed azimuth 168 degrees, elevation 75 degrees, and collecting data by 24-hour transit scans. Which Milky Way parts does it pass through when trace shows one or two arms?
  2. Hugh Goodwin on My 150cm LRO-H2 hydrogen line radio telescope is pointed azimuth 168 degrees, elevation 75 degrees, and collecting data by 24-hour transit scans. Which Milky Way parts does it pass through when trace shows one or two arms?
  3. How to calculate a table showing attenuation of muons by lead thickness, and analysing the results I have obtained at LRO with difference quantities of lead between two CosmicWatch muon detectors in coincidence arrangement 17/5/2026 – astronomy.me.u on Calculating attenuation of muons in lead – ASCII text version
  4. Admin on My 150cm LRO-H2 hydrogen line radio telescope is pointed azimuth 168 degrees, elevation 75 degrees, and collecting data by 24-hour transit scans. Which Milky Way parts does it pass through when trace shows one or two arms?
  5. Jason Burnfield on Plots of data collected using Brian Coleman’s self-made hydrogen-line feed placed at correct (I think…but maybe not?) focal point on the LRO-H2 telescope (150cm Solar Cooker Radio Telescope) & pointed towards either outer Milky Way (1 spiral arm seen) or inner Milky Way (2 spiral arms seen) 16 May 2026

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Temperature response of UKRAA PicoMuon Muon Detector

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The gain of a hydrogen horn or dish depends on its aperture which makes sense as bigger aperture means more light collected. But how does this work with a Yagi antenna tuned to hydrogen?

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It is commonly stated that acceptable error in flare angle on a SETI Horn of Plenty is lambda/4. Why is this amount chosen?

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Can an existing SETI Horn of Plenty (Hydrogen Line Horn) be extended by adding an extension on the front? Practical answer and more detailed explanation of physics involved.

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