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