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New radioJove station at Lancaster University, UK

 

Hi folks: we'll be installing a dual-dipole antenna and receiver at Lancaster in July, with the aim of autonomous operation. This will be away from our campus at an experiment site in a field. If anyone has any advice on mini-PC choices for data logging inside a weather-proof enclosure (pelicase), that'd be great. Or indeed any advice in general on running a radioJove telescope remotely!
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Additionally, I'd be keen to hear from anyone using the radioJove antennas for WSPR mode operations.
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Thanks,
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Joe
 

Hi Joe,
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that's good to hear!

I operate my RJ receiver remotely, like some others probably do. I initially considered using VNC or TeamViewer software for remote control and then decided to run a TeamViewer host on the RJ PC. At the same time, I synchronize the storage device with Google Drive.
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So far, it's working very well! In my experience, it's better to turn Google Drive synchronization on and off, because the constant writing of data during observation otherwise causes Google Drive to delay synchronization and you don't get the data until a day later.
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I hope this helps a little in making a decision.
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Sabine
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Germany
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Hi Sabine, that's very helpful, thank you! I'll update this thread as the station progresses.
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Joe
 

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

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