Technical Notes
Bibliography of Web Links
Amateur Radio Digital Corporation
ARDC Web: https://www.ardc.net
ARDC Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ardc.73
ADRC Groups: https://ardc.groups.io/
ARDG Twitter: @ardc_73
Amateur Radio Astronomy
Radio Astronomy Topics: https://www.radiosky.com/topicshome.html
Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA): https://radio-astronomy.org/
Simple Radio Telescope instructions at RTL-SDR.com:
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/cheap-and-easy-hydrogen-line-radio-astronomy-with-a-rtl-sdr-wifi-parabolic-grid-dish-lna-and-sdrsharp/
Collection of Radio Telescope articles from RTL-SDR.com https://www.rtl-sdr.com/?s=radio+telescope
Collection of works about Job's Radio Telescope: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/?s=Job+Geheniau
Collection of Pulsar articles from RTL-SDR.com: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/?s=Pulsars
SARA2022 Conference WIFI Grid RTL-SDR Telescopes:
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/wifi-grid-rtl-sdr-radio-telescopes-featured-in-sara2022-conference-talks/
What is a Jansky (Jy) ?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jansky
What is a Solar Flux Unit (SFU)?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_flux_unit
Software Defined Radio
RTL-SDR.com https://www.rtl-sdr.com/
Nooelec (many receivers and accessories): https://www.nooelec.com/store/
Caribou Lite Raspbery Pi Hat SDR: https://www.crowdsupply.com/cariboulabs/cariboulite-rpi-hat
KrakenSDR Radio Direction Finding: https://www.krakenrf.com/
RASDR (Radio Astronomy SDR)L https://radio-astronomy.org/rasdr
Software
ARGO (Slow strip chart for doppler recording):
http://www.472khz.org/pages/technical-topics/weak-signal-modes/software.php
Stellarium (Virtual Planetarium): https://stellarium.org/
HDSDR (Receive software for SDR): https://www.hdsdr.de/
SDR# (Receive software for SDR): https://airspy.com/download/
WSJT-X (Amateur Communication by meteor scatter): https://physics.Princeton.edu/plulsar/k1jt/wsjtx.html
OpenSpace (Planetarium Visualization) : http://wiki.openspaceproject.com/docs/tutorials/users/downloadinstall.html
Radio Telescopes
SARA Scope-in-a-box (turnkey small telescope): https://www.radio-astronomy.org/store/projects/scope-in-a-box
Collection of Radio Telescope articles from RTL-SDR.comhttps://www.rtl-sdr.com/?s=Radio+Telescope
First Light Report for 21cm Hydrogen Line Telescope:
https://www.starkids.org/telescopes/first-light-report-for-21cm-hydrogen-line-telescope/
Astronomical Radio Signals From Space
SETI: The Water Hole: https://astronomynow.com/news/n1004/26seti5/
Water Hole: https://dbpedia.org/page/Water_hole_(radio)
Radio Astronomy Frequencies Bands: http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/radioastro-frequencieslist.htm
IAU List Of Important Spectral Lines: http://www.astrosurf.com/luxorion/radioastronomy-lines.htm
Meteors
American Meteor Society: https://www.amsmeteors.org/
Radio Meteor Observing Bulletin: https://www.rmob.org/
Estimating distance to meteors by elevation angle, Meniscus Method:
Meteor Science and Engineering by D. W. R. McKinley – 1961: https://a.co/d/5K5XXVi
Meteor Science and Engineering by D. W. R. McKinley –
Radio Meteors, Meteor Scatter, Meteor Radar
Collection of articles from RTL-SDR: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/?s=Meteor+radar
Tech Minds Detecting Meteors With Software Defined Radio: https://youtu.be/04ayWTrcCxc
Passive Interferometry of Meteor Trails:
Meteor Scatter RF Receiving System: https://physicsopenlab.org/2020/10/28/meteor-rf-scattering-receiving-system/
Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) : https://www.amsmeteors.org/ams-programs/radio-observing/the-meteor-meniscus-meteor-distance-verses-meteor-zenith-angle/
Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) Live! https://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/cmor-radiants/
Neutral Hydrogen Science
What is the 21 cm Neutral Hydrogen Line?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_line
Detection Of Neutral Hydrogen: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~patann/NeutralHydrogen.htm
Solar Flux Measurements
The 10cm Solar Flux: https://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Educational/2/2/5
Radio Solar Telescope Network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Solar_Telescope_Network
Experimental SDR Receiver for Monitoring & Processing of Solar Radio Bursts:
Software defined radio technologies for monitoring of the solar activity
https://events.spacepole.be/event/64/sessions/160/attachments/402/772/Radio_technologies4SolarActivity.pdf
Citizen Science Networks and Programs
NASA Citizen Science: https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscience
HamSCI: https://hamsci.org/
Radio Meteor Observation Bulletin: https://www.rmob.org/
American Meteor Society: https://www.amsmeteors.org/
Notes about notes (this comes out)
Backyard Radio Astronomy topics
As Live Action Science exhibits for Planetariums, Observatories, Science Museums.
Accessing funding, expertise.
ARDC Grants
NSF, others
SDR technology.
Target brightness, system sensitivity, Janskis vs dBm.
Radio Meteors
Passive Radar
Detection Radar
Some interesting signatures
Location Radar
24/7 receiver, web streaming, projecting on the dome
Galactic molecular gas clouds
Neutral Hydrogen receiver
Hydroxyl Radical
Table of other molecules.
Detecting pulsars.
Jovian noise
VLF
Crowd sourced Citizen Science
Citizen Science Networks
RMOB
HamSCI
Festival Of Eclipses
Bibliography
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