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Has anyone tried using a satellite tv dish for amateur radioastronomy?
I'm thinking about trying to convert an old 24" rooftop satellite dish into a small radiotelescope. Has anyone here tried this? Is there software available which converts received raw radio waves into useful imagery? Any information at all would be helpful!
Thanks, Tina L! Yeah, I know that an 8' array would be better, but my wife would kill me. ;D
5 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
you should know better than to ask a technical question here. :-)
a 24" dish is a little small. you could have fun with an old 8 foot c band dish. do a search for the society of amateur radio astronomers.
- 1 decade ago
It´s possible but technically thin...you dont make a radio telescope but a radio receiver of extraterrestrial waves, like SETI project, right?...an equipment to transform cosmic waves on images is very expansive, and only few countries have them
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I had an old 8 ft dish that I tried that with but I kept getting the same 6EQUJ5 signal over and over.
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