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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Budget Radio Telescope: DRAFT document
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Marcus D. Leech |
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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Budget Radio Telescope: DRAFT document |
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Tue, 21 May 2013 10:38:42 -0400 |
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Hi Marcus,
Very nice. We've also been looking at using the $8 RTLSDR as a
educational tool to do exactly the same thing.
Alan Rogers et. al. at Haystack have also developed something similar:
http://www.haystack.mit.edu/edu/undergrad/srt/
juha
Yes, I'd seen both this, and the earlier SRT.
This new SRT is still about, I'm guessing, a factor of 5 more expensive
than my approach :) Although their instrument will be more sensitive, due
to the larger collecting area, althouth their claimed Tsys (170K,
really that high?) is a bit of a worry...
--
Marcus Leech
Principal Investigator
Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortium
http://www.sbrac.org