Hi Joe,
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I am just recently in this business, but my graduate student and I have just commissioned a square TFD array at our observatory.? The observatory is about 30km from the university campus, so almost everything there is run either remotely or robotically.? We use VNC to communicate with the two computers (which record left and right circularly polarized data).? Every 24 hours (shortly after 0h UTC), a python script zips up the previous day's data and ftp's those files to an on-campus data server which is backed up regularly.
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You may have seen some of the results that we have posted from the TFD array (Dark Sky Observatory).? Our good results are due to two things -- a pretty low RFI background site and the RX-888 Mk II SDRs that we chose for the project.? They have 16-bit ADCs and give excellent sensitivity and dynamic range.?? However, they require very capable computers with fast USB 3.0 ports.
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Richard Gray
