Site Engineering

Upcoming Activities

We are planning our next Annual Open House at the Pishner radio astronomy antenna site for the weekend of August 10-12, 2018. This will be during the Perseid Meteor Shower. Planned activities include public programs, food on Saturday, a ham radio special event station, and night sky viewing (weather permitting). More details to come.

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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 Work Site trip report for May 18-20, 2018 has now been posted. A site trip report for the weekend of June 16-17, 2018 will be posted soon.

- DSES members delivered talks at the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers Annual Conference at Green Bank Observatory, West Virginia (dates June 10-13, 2018).
- Skip Crilly presented: "Geographically-spaced Synchronized Signal Detection System" (click link for presentation slides).
- Dr. Richard Russel presented two related papers: "Galactic Navigation Position Data Using Interstellar Medium HI Velocity Measurements" and "Earth’s Orbital Position Using Galactic HI Interstellar Medium Velocity Measurements".
- Also attending from DSES was Ray Uberecken.

Website Update Notes

- We added a link on our Education Page to a recently created 1-hour lesson on Radio Propagation. The lesson is at the MetEd COMET meteorology education site (which also hosts the weather spotter training lessons). [June 17, 2018]

- The Current DSES By-Laws are now available here online. [April 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 - on stand-by

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