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TechMinds: Detecting Meteors With Software Defined Radio
In his latest video Matt from the TechMinds YouTube channel has shown how it's possible to detect the RF echoes of meteors falling in the earths atmosphere which a software defined radio. The concept...
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Recent Talks from the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers 2023 Conference
Over on their YouTube channel there have been numerous talks uploaded over the past few months from the 2023 Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) conference. Some of these talks are quite useful...
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Discovery Dish Pre-Launch: A Lightweight Dish and Feed for L-Band Weather...
For the past few years we have been working on finding the best way to help beginners get started with L-band weather satellite reception and basic radio astronomy. We have now come up with a solution...
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TechMinds: Using a Software Defined Radio as a Radio Telescope
Back in 2020 we released a tutorial about how to use a 2.4 GHz WiFi Grid Dish antenna as a radio telescope which can detect and measure the Hydrogen line emissions in our Milky Way galaxy. Recently...
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Wok-The-Hydrogen: A Low Cost Wok Based Hydrogen Line Radio Telescope
In addition to the last Hydrogen Line radio astronomy post from a few minutes ago, we've also recently seen a post on Hackaday about a research paper (PDF) that describes a Hydrogen Line Radio...
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Discovery Dish Now Available for Crowd Funding! A Lightweight Dish and Feed...
Today our Crowd Funding campaign for the Discovery Dish has gone live! Thank you to anyone who supports this project and our goal of bringing affordable products that make getting into various radio...
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TotalPower: Windows Program for Hydrogen Line Detection and Analysis with an...
Thank you to Mario A. Natali (I0NAA) who wrote in an wanted to share his Windows software called TotalPower which is designed for mapping the galactic Hydrogen line and works with RTL-SDR dongles. The...
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Crowd Supply Discovery Dish Teardown Session: Thursday 30 November Noon PST
Crowd Supply is hosting Teardown Session 38 on Thursday 3- November at Noon PST time which will feature the Discovery Dish. Join us for this livestream where I will be talking about and showing the...
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A Tribute to Amateur Radio Astronomer Job Geheniau (Job’s Radio Telescope)
Job Geheniau was someone whose amateur radio astronomy projects were often featured on RTL-SDR Blog (often referred to as Job's Radio Telescope). It with great sadness that we have recently learned...
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The Latest Talks from the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers
Over on YouTube a bunch of new talks from the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) have recently been uploaded from their recent SARA Western Conference that was held in April 2024. The talks...
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Project H Line 3D: Beginners Guide to Hydrogen Line Antenna Fabrication,...
Thank you to Alex Petit Jr who wanted to submit 'Project H Line 3D' which is a collection of document and programs designed to be a beginners guide to antenna fabrication, reception, recording,...
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Project H Line 3D: YouTube Talk
Last week we posted about Alex Petit Jr's 'Project H Line 3D' which is a collection of documents and programs designed to be a beginner's guide to antenna fabrication, reception, recording, software...
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Paper on Building a Low Cost RTL-SDR Based Hydrogen Line Radio Telescope
Back in 2020, we posted a tutorial on how to set up a low-cost Hydrogen Line radio telescope using an RTL-SDR, LNA, and WiFi grid antenna. Since then we have seen similar setups successfully replicated...
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