Dish Telescope Resource Links
Dish Telescope Experiments
Morehead State University 21-meter Space Tracking Antenna
General Information
(MSU
Space Science Center
)
Technical Specifications
(MSU
Space Science Center
)
Indianapolis 5-meter C-band Telescope + Data
(U. Indianapolis / Web Archive)
Cheap C-band Receiver Design
(U. Indianapolis / Web Archive)
Calgary 3-meter Rooftop Telescope (custom; reference only)
Basics + 4 GHz Continuum Receiver
H
I
Spectrometer
Haystack 2-meter Small Radio Telescope (SRT; 1.4 GHz)
General Info
(MIT/Haystack Obs.)
Interferometry
(MIT/Haystack Obs.)
1.2-meter Radio Telescope (10 + 1.4 GHz; Sven Brauch)
Detection of Sun and Moon at 10 GHz
Hydrogen 1.4 GHz Line:
Receiver
+
Detection
+
SDR Upgrade
Other Assorted H
I
21cm Line Experiments
H
I
21cm Line Spectrometry with RTL dongle
(rtl-sdr.com)
H
I
21cm line with Ku-band dish + RLT dongle
(PARAC)
H
I
21cm line with paint bucket(!) + RTL dongle
(PARAC)
A Low-Cost H
I
21cm Horn Antenna
(Rishi Patel)
Building a Hydrogen Line Pront End on a Budget with RTL-SDR and 2x LNA4ALL
Cheap and Easy Hydrogen Line Radio Astronomy with an RTL-SDR, WIFI Parabolic Grid Dish, LNA, and SDR#
SETI:
Mini-Manual
+
Systems
+
Tech Manual
+
Kits
(SETI League)
Weather Satellite Data:
GOES Image Downloads with RTL-SDR + Raspberry Pi
Radio Telescope Terms and Components
Brightness in Radio Astronomy
(local)
Brightness Temperature
(Wikipedia)
Noise Temperature
(Wikipedia)
Noise Figure
(Wikipedia)
Satellite Setup Information
(SatSig, Eric Johnston)
Microwaves 101
(encyclopedia, calculators, etc.)
Feedhorn Troubleshooting Guide
(
Chaparral Communications
)
Radio Telescope
(Wikipedia)
Satellite Dish
(Wikipedia)
Television Receive-Only (TVRO) Systems
(Wikipedia)
Direct-Broadcast Satellite Television (DBSTV)
(Wikipedia)
Feedhorn
(Wikipedia)
Waveguide
(Wikipedia)
RF Front End
(Wikipedia)
Low-Noise Amplifier (LNA)
(Wikipedia)
Downconverters
(Wikipedia)
Low-Noise Block Down-converter (LNB)
(Wikipedia)
Feed Line
(Wikipedia)
Coaxial Cable
(Wikipedia)
Integrated Receiver/Decoder
(Wikipedia)
Set-Top Box (Receiver)
(Wikipedia)
Bias-T
See Also
Smaller Dish Resources
Radio Astronomy Resources
Radio Projects
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