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Andrew Thornett, Lichfield, England, M6THO, andrew (at) thornett (dot) net
Radio Astronomy
SARA Scope in Box Package, and ezRA Software Suite used for hydrogen radio mapping experiments at LRO and list of hardware components accessible in UK 14/9/2024.
The hydrogen radio mapping project was produced by the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomy (SARA), based in the USA (https://www.radio-astronomy.org/node/366).
Read moreLatest results of processing all available hydrogen data mapping Milky Way using Ptarmigan Array @ LRO 31/10/2024-10/9/2024
Software used: I am incredibly grateful to Ted Cline for his wonderful ezRA suite software, which was used for data
Read moreData from 24 hour drift scan at 40 degrees declination from Lichfield UK 6-7/9/2024 with Alex Pettit 21cm Patch Yagi Antenna
Data requested by Alex for assessing performance of antenna. Click link below to download data: https://www.astronomy.me.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/AP21YAGI-40degs-dec-24hr-drift-scan-06-070924.zip
Read moreVery strange output 3 min sampling ezRA with Alex Pettit Patch Yagi 163 degrees azimuth and 77 degrees elevation (approx 40 degs declination) for few days
Graphs coming from this don’t make sense! Andy Download data from this session & my initial plots using ezRA (ZIP
Read moreLive observations of hydrogen line radio observing at Lichfield Radio Observatory presented to the SARA Radio Observing Party 1/9/2024
LRO live presentations. Click on link to view segment from session involving LRO:
Read moreComparison of performance 21cm Yagi vs Ptarmigan array for hydrogen line observation
Data collected using ezRA suite and analysed with same software. Link below to PDF of Ted Cline’s analysis of the
Read moreComparing Ptarmigan and 21cm Plate Yagi data at LRO, collected over few days 26-31/8/2024 – processing both data sets in ezRA
I used ezRA software suite to process the data set presented in the post: https://www.astronomy.me.uk/comparing-pharmigan-and-21cm-plate-yagi-data-at-lro-collected-over-few-days-26-31-8-2024 Both aerials pointed 163 degrees
Read moreComparing Ptarmigan and 21cm Plate Yagi data at LRO, collected over few days 26-31/8/2024 – the data set
Dear Ted, I have been collecting Ptarmigan Array and Alex Pettit 21cm Plate Yagi data at similar elevation and same
Read moreResults of shootout between Alex Pettit 21cm Yagi and Ptarmigan ex-military array (band 3)
Nooelec H1 LNA on both Recorded similar time period in few days up to 25/8/2024. ezRA software – ezCol for
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