{"id":104,"date":"2019-05-11T00:38:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T05:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/?p=104"},"modified":"2019-05-14T23:30:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T04:30:03","slug":"the-amateur-radio-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/index.php\/2019\/05\/11\/the-amateur-radio-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amateur Radio Telescope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MarcusRadioTelescopeSetup.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MarcusRadioTelescopeSetup.png 692w, https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MarcusRadioTelescopeSetup-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Credit:  Marcus Radio Telescope <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtl-sdr.com\/rtl-sdr-for-budget-radio-astronomy\/\">https:\/\/www.rtl-sdr.com\/rtl-sdr-for-budget-radio-astronomy\/<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To build your own Amateur Radio Telescope, you will need a few item to get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will need:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><code>Antenna --&gt; LNA --&gt; Bandpass filter --&gt; Power Injector (Bias Tee) --&gt; SDR Dongle --&gt; PC<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Software used can be SDR# or a selection from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rtl-sdr.com\/big-list-rtl-sdr-supported-software\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.rtl-sdr.com\/big-list-rtl-sdr-supported-software\/<\/a>  ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">also need to download Radio Eyes to capture a Bell curve like the one below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"445\" class=\"wp-image-108\" style=\"width: 600px;\" src=\"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MarcusRadioTelescopeHydrogenLine.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MarcusRadioTelescopeHydrogenLine.png 653w, https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MarcusRadioTelescopeHydrogenLine-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>To read into Radio Astronomy deeper, here is a PDF book from Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA): <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-astronomy.org\/pdf\/sara-beginner-booklet.pdf\"><strong>Sara Beginner Booklet<\/strong><\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To build your own Amateur Radio Telescope, you will need a few item to get started. You will need: Antenna &#8211;&gt; LNA &#8211;&gt; Bandpass filter &#8211;&gt; Power Injector (Bias Tee) &#8211;&gt; SDR Dongle &#8211;&gt; PC Software used can be SDR# or a selection from https:\/\/www.rtl-sdr.com\/big-list-rtl-sdr-supported-software\/ , also need to download Radio Eyes to capture a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/index.php\/2019\/05\/11\/the-amateur-radio-telescope\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Amateur Radio Telescope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radio.cvastro.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}