Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes
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#3This is so cool. As someone who used to run SETI@Home, this is exciting and I'll be doing what I can when they're ready for me.
What is lacking, or I cannot find, yet, is steps for me to take or contribute.
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#4At the risk of retracting from the really cool project, I notice that a lot of highlighted phrases in a text is indicative of an LLM writer. Not that I have anything against that.
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#5I would love to build something like this, but it looks like the project is not quite complete yet? And also I don't see anywhere on the page where I can sign up for updates.
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#6I would love to build something like this, but it looks like the project is not quite complete yet? And also I don't see anywhere on the page where I can sign up for updates.
Would recommend getting a Ham technician license, as it will prepare you to understand the LNA and filter hardware.
Best regards =3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5uV6zI_978
https://github.com/AP-HLine-3D/HLine3D
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#7At the risk of retracting from the really cool project, I notice that a lot of highlighted phrases in a text is indicative of an LLM writer. Not that I have anything against that.
That would also fit because the image on the top is very clearly AI generated. I find that quite off-putting to be honest.
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#8The next step for a project like this would be to incorporate a better, perhaps bepsoke SDR device more focused on the astronomy to be performed as most small off the shelf RTLSDR dongles have pretty horrible frequency drift. The addition of a more stable local clock source, coupled with a GPSDO - GPS disciplined oscillator - would allow signals to be correlated in time across many stations and allow for some actual, albeit basic, interferometry / aperture synthesis.
I think that is what is needed for some actual science to be done with this kind of hardware and community support - similar to the work done by amateurs hosting hardware to record sferics in the VLF bands that sync up over the internet to do lightning strike tracking.
Re: Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes
#9The next step for a project like this would be to incorporate a better, perhaps bepsoke SDR device more focused on the astronomy to be performed as most small off the shelf RTLSDR dongles have pretty horrible frequency drift. The addition of a more stable local clock source, coupled with a GPSDO - GPS disciplined oscillator - would allow signals to be correlated in time across many stations and allow for some actual,…
Re: Wow@Home – Network of Amateur Radio Telescopes
#10The next step for a project like this would be to incorporate a better, perhaps bepsoke SDR device more focused on the astronomy to be performed as most small off the shelf RTLSDR dongles have pretty horrible frequency drift. The addition of a more stable local clock source, coupled with a GPSDO - GPS disciplined oscillator - would allow signals to be correlated in time across many stations and allow for some actual,…
The original v4 RTL-SDR has a 1PPM TCXO. The problem is, the tons of shady clones don't.
As for the GPSDO, that should be easy to solve at least if the host platform is a Raspberry Pi - the SparkFun NEO-M9N board can be connected to the PPS input of the Pi. The problem is, that thing is expensive.
[1] https://www.berrybase.de/sparkfun-qwiic-gps-breakout-neo-m9n...