Site Engineering

Upcoming Activities

The next DSES Operations & Engineering Meeting will be on Monday, December 10, 5:30 PM at the IHOP Restaurant at 6005 Constitution Ave, Colorado Springs, 80915. This is located on the corner of Tutt and Constitution. Steve Plock & Ed Corn will be hosting this Engineering Meeting. The meeting will also be streamed on TeamViewer.

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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. Members can participate remotely using Teamviewer. 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

Now posted are the presentations from our DSES Science Meeting, hosted by Dr. Richard Russel, held on November 26, 2018. Those include 1) results from the latest galactic rotation rate observations, 2) a compilation of all individual radio sources observed to date with Spectracyber and the 60 foot antenna, and 3) Dayton Jones's presentation "Small Antenna Calibration at JPL".

An updated revision of Skip Crilly's presentation, SETI Geographically-spaced Synchronized Signal Detecction System – Simultaneous SETI Observations Oct 2017 to Nov 2018 has been posted. This replaces an earlier version.

Bob Haggard (N0CTV) has been working on building a new stairway and porch to the communications trailer at the radio telescope site. Today he traveled to the site and installed most of it. Please see Nov. 5th's post, Bob Haggart’s work building a new porch and stairway for the communications trailer.

Website Update Notes

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

60-foot dish antenna:
[August 19, 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 the 2018 SARA Western Conference at Stanford. See the slides on our Publications Page, in the Science Section.

With the pointing systems and receivers now being validated, we also are starting to use the 60-foot dish antenna for detecting astronomical radio source objects and the Milky Way at 1.4 GHz. We currently are using a SpectraCyber 1420 MHz Hydrogen Line Spectrometer. And we are starting to try RASDR4 (Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio). A 1.4 GHz feed designed by Steve Plock is at the focus.

Jupiter Radio Science Experiment "Radio Jove":
20.1 MHz monitoring of Jupiter and its moon Io, using a 2-element phased dipole antenna - currently down, pending repair of the receiver. [Aug. 18. 2018]

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