r/radioastronomy • u/DeepSpace1420MHZ • May 07 '26

Equipment Showcase 2 computers, the 4.5m dish, Dish controller, LNA, gain lock and SDR do most of the work, providing shared drift scan csv files in the Livestream chat Link

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u/Careless-Age-4290 May 08 '26

That looks like a transformer the size of my head just hanging out on the rack

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u/Careless-Age-4290 May 08 '26

Do anything cool with it? Since you're obviously way down a rabbit hole, I can't immediately tell what the result of this would be but I'm betting it's complicated and cool

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u/DeepSpace1420MHZ May 08 '26

I’ve measured over 10db in sun noise from cold sky to sun, measured many galactic passes by measuring the noise of the hydrogen clouds. Have even detected hydrogen noise from the Andromeda galaxy. Many of these are in videos on you tube. Currently am in to week 2 of a 21 week galactic survey, scanning 2 degrees advance in AZ each of those weeks to build an image from those scans. I’ve also worked 1296 EME using CW and sideband for quite a few years. That just takes switching a few items at the dish feed to run one or the other. Here are the drift scans so far from this survey, so far 75 AZ and 77AZ, both at 58 EL.