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How To Build A Backyard Radio Telescope
For less than $400, it's possible to observe places like the star-forming regions at the center of our galaxy.
Building radio receivers from scratch is still a popular project since it can be done largely with off-the-shelf discrete components and a wire long enough for the bands that the radio will receive.
That includes launching a new six-week academy where students get to build their own ham radio for free and from scratch. “We're finally pursuing that dream of providing this after school ...
With modern electronics, it is relatively easy to build your own radio telescope. To understand how it can be done, check out a recent paper by Jack Phelps posted to the arXiv preprint server.
Andy Jacobs and Paul Hawksbee from talkSPORT talk to us about how they started out presenting together and share a few of the secrets in building and maintaining a strong co-presenter relationship ...