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Designing the new radio receiver

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Radio telescope design & build project

leonardoLeonardo 08/06/2024 at 21:220 Comments

Hi everyone,

Just a quick update here. I'm in the phase of designing my own radio receiver, in order to remove the H1 SawBird and use my own custom hardware.

It will consist of multiple RF amplifiers and RF band-pass filters tuned to receive neutral hydrogen radiations. 

The design will include a metallic container for the electronics, a cooling system designed to cool down the power amplifiers during measurement sessions and a USB-C power supply port.

I will experiment with different kinds of RF components, in order to find the correct combination for my radio telescope.

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