[hpsdr] And Now for somthing Completly Different

[George Medakovich]

This sounds like the Argus project that has a link on the page you referenced.  An array of
sdr's with "cheap" lna's - in this case they are all local.
With network-based radios, wouldn't the challenge be getting the samples
time-stamped so that the data could be compiled?

There's probably some fun to be had with our emerging network of sdr's
studying propagation, etc..  Has anyone been using the web-sdr's as
distant receivers
with their local transmitters?  My own setup is down right now, but once
I have my antenna up, etc. I intend to put my Mercury on the network
with a Solaris server.

George, ae5ci

James Brown wrote:
> I was going through some old videos that I made some 25 years ago and 
> came to a talk give by Robert Dixon of the Ohio State 'Big Ear' fame - 
> the place that heard the 'WOW' signal.  He was describing a 'Radio 
> Camera' where he would layout an array of dipoles each closely coupled 
> to a down converter and then the output routed to a central location 
> where there would be a powerful computer to do the FFT and beam 
> forming.  The results would be a picture of the sky that would 
> 'twinkle' as cosmic events happened.  Good idea but with lots of 
> problems as I am sure you understand. He has updated his ideas and 
> they can be found at the  North American Astrophysical Observatory 
> <http://www.naapo.org/> site.
>  
> My question is this:
> Is there some combination of SDR and antenna technology that could 
> cover part of the microwave spectrum ( say up to 2 gHz) and make 
> something like this finally possible?  Where are the major problems?  
> I expect - locking the clocks and the needed speed of the A-to-D is 
> the current stumbling blocks.



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