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The 30-Foot Dish Funding Campaign
DSES Newsletter – Fall 2025
DSES on Ham Nation Podcast All about DSES and recent activities
Local Community Event April 26 DSES hosted a local group
Earth-Venus-Earth 2025 Full Report on the March 22 event- Updated!
2025 SARA Conference Report from the conference
Cover article featured in April QST!
2025 Science Fair Awards DSES judged at the Pike Peak Regional Science and Engineering Fair
Las Animas High School Visit The first group of High School students to visit the new building.
DSES 2024 Activity Report It’s been a great year, read about the various activities in this report.
Virtual Open House Update 2024 by Bill Miller Learn all about DSES history
We are now on Groups.io please join if interested: DSES Groups.io
Our YouTube channel can be found here: Deep Space Exploration Society
Club Information:
For more information about us, you can email us at information(at)dses.science.
You can read the DSES information brochure 2025 or watch this video Virtual Open House 2024.
Introduction
The Deep Space Exploration Society is a Colorado based nonprofit organization dedicated to practical astronomy and space science education for students, the general public, and society members.
Our major project is restoring and operating a 60-foot dish antenna for radio astronomy and amateur radio experimenting. The site is located in Kiowa County, in Colorado. Since 2009 our volunteer members have been working hard to restore and modernize the antenna and its support facilities. In addition, we support radio astronomy and amateur radio projects with smaller antennas. We support educational outreach to the local community.
ASTRONOMY
We accomplished our first successful scientific measurements of galactic neutral hydrogen (HI) at 1.4 GHz in August 2016. In 2018 we began undertaking systematic neutral hydrogen measurements of our Milky Way galaxy. Highlights of our current astronomical work include:
- Higher resolution mapping of the Milky Way using the 1420 MHz HI hydrogen radio spectral line.
- 1420 MHz HI hydrogen Doppler shift measurements for galactic mass and position studies.
- Detecting and measuring pulsars.
- Using SpectraCyber and SDR receivers.
- Publishing our work in amateur radio astronomy journals. and participating in conferences.
A significant technical accomplishment is the development of computer-based control systems for accurately pointing the dish antenna to celestial coordinates.
We conduct other radio astronomy experiments, including:
- Joint observations for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) with the 40-foot radio telescope dish antenna at the Greenbank Observatory in West Virginia
- Radio science observations of Jupiter and its moon Io
- Solar Wind Observations using the Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance Monitor (SID) at Very Low Frequencies (VLF)
- Meteor Scatter
AMATEUR RADIO
Our Amateur Radio work includes:
- Engineering design, building, and coding
- EME Moon Bounce
- Tropospheric Scatter
- HF operating
OUTREACH
- We host an Open House at our radio astronomy antenna site for the local communities each Fall.
- We have been sponsoring prizes and participating as judges in the Pikes Peak Regional Science Fair since 2019.
- We are developing our ability and are actively starting to support student projects.
- We give presentations to interested local groups about our work.
Membership or Donation
Membership in DSES runs from the start of each calendar year. Dues are $50 / year for voting members and $20 / year for non-voting members. Student members are free!
Please see our Membership Page for more information and instructions on how to become a member: Membership Information – Deep Space Exploration Society
We also need Donations for operating our facility and special projects: Donation Information