FUNcube Dongle as a Radio Telescope?

A Radio Astronomy paper describes the use of the AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle Software Defined Radio as part of a Radio Telescope.

In the paper Dr David Morgan of the British Astronomical Association Radio Astronomy Group (BAA-RAG) describes how he used the FUNcube Dongle as the heart of a Radio Telescope operating on 1420 MHz.

He concludes that “A newly available SDR component has been shown to be very capable of acting as the heart of a simple and inexpensive three component radio telescope.”.

You can download the paper ‘Experiments with a Software Defined Radio Telescope’ by Dr David Morgan at
http://www.britastro.org/radio/projects/An_SDR_Radio_Telescope.pdf

General Radio Astronomy Projects
http://www.britastro.org/radio/projects/otherproj.html

BAA-RAG Yahoo Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/baa-rag/

AMSAT-UK FUNcube Yahoo Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube/

Posted at UK.AMSAT.ORG on August at 11, 2011 by M0TFO