Cantenna Design 1420 MHz
Website recommended by Alex Pettit: https://www.changpuak.ch/electronics/cantenna.php
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Andrew Thornett, Lichfield, England, M6THO, andrew (at) thornett (dot) net
Month: January 2025
How to design an effective 1420 MHz waveguide from ChatGPT
To design an effective waveguide for 1420 MHz (21 cm hydrogen line), you need to consider several factors, including waveguide
Read moreProcessing LRO-H2(SCRT) Data collected over two days 27-28 January 2025 by ezCol in ezRA software suite, using 1400-1427MHz Cavity Filter, Nooelec SAWBird H1 LNA, KMR 400 coaxial cable, and RTL-Blog V3 Software Defined Radio; reference frequency 1422 MHz, Bandwidth 1.000, Integration of 1,100,000 samples. Processing on 30/1/2025.
Click on links below to download data: ezCol .txt data files https://www.astronomy.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/data-300125.zip SDR Sharp data generated from conversion of above
Read more3D processing 3 days ezCol data using latest ezCon250124b.py script in ezRA suite & using meshes/matrix data tables in Rinearn 3D 27/1/2025
This shows the repeated patterns of data emerging from the drift scans of LRO-H1(Ptarmigan) hydrogen line radio telescope at LRO
Read moreLRO-H3 1420MHz tuned aerial (Alex Pettit Plate Yagi) not showing difference between sky and ground. Why might this be? Handmade tuned 1420MHz with 13 elements and RTL-SDR Blog V3 software defined radio and Nooelec SAWBird H1 low noise amplifier and filter.
LRO-H3 1420MHz tuned aerial (Alex Pettit Plate Yagi) not showing difference between sky and ground. Why might this be? Handmade
Read moreBatch file used for collecting data using ezCol (Easy Radio Astronomy) in hydrogen line (1420.405MHz) radio telescopes at Lichfield Radio Observatory (LRO).
This is the current batch file used with LRO-H1: REM NORMAL RESOLUTION (IE STANDARD SETTINGS) cd C:\cd C:\Data\ezRA_Program+Data\LRO\py ..\ezRA\ezCol.py -ezRAObsLat
Read moreAndrew Thornett’s astrophotography photograph processing workflow using PixInsight and Adobe Photoshop 22/1/2025
Click on links to download the workflow: Workflow (PDF) – https://www.astronomy.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Andrew-Thornett-Astrophoto-Processing-Workflow-220125.pdf Workflow (.docx file) – https://www.astronomy.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Andrew-Thornett-Astrophoto-Processing-Workflow-220125.docx
Read moreRepositories of processes and scripts for PixInsight Software
This list needs to be added to the repository list within PixInsight: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/setiastro/pixinsight-updates/main https://www.rc-astro.com/BlurXTerminator/PixInsight https://www.rc-astro.com/NoiseXTerminator/PixInsight https://www.rc-astro.com/StarXTerminator/PixInsight https://www.rc-astro.com/TensorFlow/PixInsight/CPU https://pixinsight.astroprocessing.com https://www.ghsastro.co.uk/updates https://www.ideviceapps.de/PixInsight/Utilities
Read moreLocation of Settings .ini file for PixInsight software on computer at LRO
Located at: C:\Users\andre\AppData\Roaming\Pleiades
Read moreComparing specifications of range of software defined radios that can be used for hydrogen line Amateur Radio Astronomy with small dishes.
Detecting the hydrogen line at 1420.4058 MHz is a popular project among amateur radio astronomers, and several software-defined radios (SDRs)
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