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davidkirwan / software_defined_radio_telescope

A cheap software defined radio telescope based on the NASA RadioJove design. Suitable for picking up decametric (10 - 100m wavelength) radio emissions from storms on Jupiter
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Develop SDR system for capturing raw data from the antenna site for analysis #13

Closed davidkirwan closed 9 years ago

davidkirwan commented 9 years ago

Develop SDR system for capturing raw data from the antenna site for analysis

davidkirwan commented 9 years ago

According to http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Octave once a basic system for capturing raw data from the telescope is configured using GNURadio, the DSP side of things can be performed within Octave or Python.

davidkirwan commented 9 years ago

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davidkirwan commented 9 years ago

Capturing data at a sample rate of 44.1kHz and a bandwidth of 2MHz costs: Minute: 215MB Hour: 12.900GB Day: 309.600GB