Assembling solar cooker dish from ebay
First part of assembly process – it is quite big! (1.5m) Andy
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Resoldering Alex Pettit 21cm Yagi using lead-based solder with Rosin
we think this aerial is not effective because of poor solder connection. I used lead-free solder and this may have
Read morePtarmigan Triffid Dipole Array
Subject: RAG – Triffid Antenna Hi Andy I asked a former colleague from work to help identify your antenna. He
Read moreSolar Cooker purchased from ebay September 2024
This was mentioned on SARA mailing list – and then I saw someone selling one on ebay UK for £50,
Read moreSARA 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:
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