Hardware Hacking

I am currently building a Geiger–Müller Array with the aim of exploiting an effect called Electromagnetic Cascade or Particle shower as a means of significantly increasing the effective aperture and reducing other issues identified in my DIY experiments.

New! Live strip chart data.

Along with the 232Mhz band experiment, I've also identified another band inside the frequency range of my VHF collinear array antenna which is also relatively radio quiet at around 173.5Mhz. However, in this series of observations I will try to set up my scans in such a way that I can also identify where in the sky the antenna is pointed and what would cause the rise and fall of signals recorded.

I recently purchased and built a low cost Soft66Lite kit which is a Direct Conversion (DC) Software Defined Receiver (SDR) the simple cousin of the well known Software Defined Receivers and unlike the early Direct Conversion Receivers of the past, as the mixer stages are based on a Quadrature Sampling Detector (QSD).

If your interested in technology and having a place to go to make stuff and also meet other people making stuff in Adelaide help get it all happening by joining the mail list at Google Group Hackerspace Adelaide

Now also on Facebook.

The ASSA Radio Astronomy Group is a new special interest group which I have become a member within the Astronomical Society of South Australia.

The aim of the group is to facilitate and encourage the sharing of skills, ideas, techniques and knowledge resources for people interested in radio astronomy.

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I loaned my 3 Tube Muon Detector to Sebastian Tomczak who has rigged it up for some experimental sonification.

More information available on his website Little-scale