A homebrew-modded feed for use with our 2.3m dish.
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Our workshop on the observing deck of SBO.Â
I lead a small student team currently building a radio telescope at the Sommers-Bausch Observatory out of donated parts following the MIT Haystack SRT design.
The goal of our telescope system is to directly observe the hydrogen line and other objects in the GHz range, with a second loop antenna designed to study sudden ionospheric disturbances in the VLF range from solar flares by analyzing signal strength of the US Navy's VLF transmitters for submarine communications.
Alfa SPID controllers for our alt/az motors which will slew our 2.3m dish to areas of interest in the sky.
The guts of our receiving/filtering system, mostly built from the MIT Haystack SRT guide.
Our 2.3m dish weighs less than 100lbs, allowing for commercial rotors, such as the ones ham radio operators use for their giant HF yagis to move it.
Our small VLF loop. Filtering and isolated ground can allow us to make observations from an area as noisy as Boulder.
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