Plishner Site Trip Summary, June 20, 2020 – Deep Space Exploration Society

This is a summary of the work done at the Plishner Radio Telescope site on June 20, 2020. Written by Bill Miller.

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News & Announcement Board

Upcoming Activities

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At this time we are holding our monthly meetings as virtual meetings. Our engineering meetings are normally 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. Email notifications are sent to members prior to the meetings. If you would like information to participate, please contact us at information(at)dses.science.

Work trips to the Haswell antenna site are generally 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. During the Covid-19 pandemic, work and science trips may be coordinated for other times. NOTE: Please coordinate with us before you go to the Plishner site, information(at)dses.science.

News

The DSES Science Meeting presentation slides of April 26, 2021 by Rich Russel are now posted on our website. (Video added May 3.)

2021 DSES Officers:
Myron Babcock - President & Treasurer
Gary Agranat - Vice President
Floyd Glick - Secretary

Our Minutes from our 2021 Annual Membership Meeting of April 19, with video, is now posted. Minutes by Bill Miller.

Elected this year to the DSES Board of Directors are:
Floyd Glick
Ray Uberecken
Don Latham
Floyd Glick is continuing his service after serving the past two years. Bill Miller and David Molter are retiring from serving. The elected members join Gary Agranat, Myron Babcock, Bob Haggart, and Bob Sayers who have been serving since last year. The Board of Directors serve for two years. Please welcome in the new Board, and please reach out to them as needed. Thank you each one for your service.

DSES Science Meeting of March 22, 2021 notes and Zoom video are posted. Science presentation by Rich Russel and Ted Cline. Minutes by Bill Miller.

Last autumn (2020) DSES participated for the first time in the ARRL Earth-Moon-Earth EME moon bounce contest. ARRL has now posted the results and published an article in which DSES is featured.

Rich Russel had a poster presentation at HamSci this Saturday March 21, 2021 on his work, The use of the Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance Radio Telescope to predict the signal and observe the North American 2017 Total Solar Eclipse. Please follow the links to learn more.

The minutes for the March 2021 DSES Engineering and Ops Meeting is available. By Bill Miller.

DSES President Bill Miller gave a Virtual Open House presentation about DSES to the Front Range 6 Meter Group on February 10, 2021. on February 10, 2021. The video of the presentation is available online [please click the link]. The presentation was also given live by ZOOM to the Arctic Amateur Radio Club Monthly Meeting on March 12th, The Utah DX Association on March 17th, and The Oregon Tualatin Valley Amateur Radio Club on March 18th.

Website Update Notes

Science Meeting Notes are now getting indexed under the Science Menu at the top of the website, with its own submenu. Click the Science menu and Science Meetings submenu to access the posts of our Science Meetings.

Active Experiments

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

60-foot dish antenna:

Current main work with the 60-foot antenna is to develop our ability to detect pulsars. We are doing this at several wavelength bands. During the winter, work will continue with observing galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz.

We are regularly using the 60 foot dish antenna for joint observing runs for SETI with Skip Crilly at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia. These joint observations are discussed in several of Skip's presentation slides. Please see our presentations page.

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.

Experiments in Colorado Springs:

Drift scan survey of Milky Way of HI 1420 MHz spectral line.

Development of hardware/software and techniques for detecting pulsars.

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