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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 or advisory tool…

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What do you call the 3 or 4 stalks which hold the feed in place on radio dish?

Admin June 17, 2026 No Comments

The three stalks that hold the feed assembly in front of a radio dish are usually called feed support struts or feed support legs. Other terms you may encounter are:…

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Brian Coleman on the dish F/D ratio that works best with his dual mode hydrogen line feed he gave me

Admin June 17, 2026 No Comments

Much work has been done on optimising feeds to illuminate a dish as efficiently as possible reducing spill over which on receive means the feed sees ground raising the system…

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Brightest masers for amateurs to observe

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From Eduard Mol 17/6/2026: Keep in mind masers are variable, so any list will be more of an indication. W49 is the best one to start out with, because it’s…

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LRO-H5: Introducing a new hydrogen line radio telescope at Lichfield Radio Observatory

Admin June 17, 2026 No Comments

This is built around an 140cm ex-communications radio dish which used to adorn the side of an university physics department. It is paired with a Discovery Hydrogen Line feed and…

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The brightest masers for amateur radio astronomers to observe

Admin June 17, 2026 No Comments

Keep in mind masers are variable, so any list will be more of an indication. W49 is the best one to start out with, because it’s consistently very bright and…

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Brian Coleman on the dish F/D ratio that works best with his dual mode hydrogen line feed he gave me

Admin June 16, 2026 No Comments

Hello Andrew Sorry for the slow reply … lots going on here. Much work has been done on optimising feeds to illuminate a dish as efficiently as possible reducing spill…

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Minimising spillover with small diameter dishes

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With small diameter dishes, a beam-narrowing Feed Choke Ring is a bit large. It might be preferable to build a dish with an f/D ratio ~ 0.27 – 0.30 to…

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Website which let’s you look for ISS, CSS, and Hubble, along with Starlink trains

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This website agrees with the ISS tracker, but let’s you look for ISS, CSS, and Hubble, along with Starlink trains. You can look at the Sun, the Moon and the…

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Website for the UKRAA Central Server of PicoMuon data

Admin June 16, 2026 No Comments

http://ukraa.com/muon

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What is the link equation (also known as the link budget equation) and how does it apply to amateur radio astronomy?

Admin June 16, 2026 No Comments

When reading this post, also consider the comment made by Alex Pettit at the bottom of the post. The link equation can be written as: where: In free space, the…

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