Originally posted by seeker11
That is really cool! I'm going to have to ask my dad, he used to be an avid ham operator but I don't know if he still does it.
Hey, keep me posted on your friend and what he has to say about that
Will do...
If your dad still has antennas all over his house, there's a good chance he's still a ham operator.
By the way you don't have to be ham radio operator to get into radio astronomy, nor have fancy equipment. I would ask your dad to set you up some
cheap equipment for scanning the skys, it's better to collaborate in joint observations.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by imitator
You're right.
But not so much that an amateur rig is going to pick it up.
edit on 8/14/2011 by Phage because: (no reason given)
some rigs can be converted into a high frequency interferometers..
I never tried radio astronomy, but I'm guessing with today's tech it's probably easy to lock on a comet, depending it's size ect... A cheap way is to
rip off one those optical tubes on a computerized GoTo telescopes, then throwing on a dipole ect.. a couple of receivers phased into a computer then
on to the web for monitoring.... alas bingo... I'd bet someone has a setup like this, if not there you go everyone, put Elenin online.
The only problem would be the size of your backyard.
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