Site Engineering

Upcoming Activities

DSES will hold a Board Of Directors Meeting on Friday evening May 4, 2018 at 5:30 pm. We will address unfinished business with the new board. This will be held at the IHOP just east of Powers Blvd. on Constitution Ave. in Colorado Springs. The General Membership is welcome to attend.

The next work trip to the Haswell antenna site will be on Saturday May 19, 2018. Members in the Colorado Springs area who wish to carpool can meet at the Ellicott fires house at 7:30 am.

Work trips to the Haswell antenna site are now scheduled for each third Saturday of the month, with weather alternates on Sunday. This third weekend was chosen because it comes between our engineering and science meetings. Having a regular date helps our members plan ahead, especially those who must travel long distances.

Our engineering meetings are held on the second Monday of each month. Our science meetings are held on the fourth Monday of each month. Start time is 5:30 PM. Please contact us if you would like information to attend.

News

- The April 2018 DSES Annual Membership Meeting presentation slides have now been posted.

- Plishner Site Report March 17, 2018, and other Updates is now posted. Photos from the fiber optic cable installation on March 6 were added.

- Two DSES papers were presented at the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) Western Conference, March 23-25, 2018, at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. The papers are: Galactic Navigation Position Data Using Interstellar Medium HI Velocity Measurements, Dr. Richard Russel, and Geographically-spaced Synchronized Signal Detection System, by Skip Crilly. See our DSES Publications page or the SARA website for abstracts.
--- The presentation slideshow by Skip Crilly is now available on our website on the Publications page. [March 25, 2018]

Current experiments now in progress at the Plishner Radio Astronomy & Space Science Center site in Haswell:

60-foot dish antenna:
[March 27, 2018] The 60 foot dish antenna is now periodically being used for joint observing runs for SETI with Skip Crilly at the Greenbank Observatory in West Virginia. These joint observations are discussed in Skip's presentation slides from this month's SARA Western Conference at Stanford. See the slides on our Publications Page, in the Science Section.

Jupiter Radio Science Experiment "Radio Jove":
20.1 MHz monitoring of Jupiter and its moon Io, using a 2-element phased dipole antenna

Experiments in Colorado Springs:

430 MHz drift scan

Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance Monitor (SID):
- 25 kHz VLF Solar flare monitoring

More information about our currently running experiments