Overview of Possible Experiments 1 - 1 Right Ascension, Hour Angle, and Sidereal Time 1 - 4 Galactic Center at Meridian Crossing 1 - 10 Minimum Detectable Signal 1 - 12 Equivalent Blackbody Temperature 1 - 16 Calculating Receiver Bandwidth 1 - 22 Interferometer Symmetry 1 - 26 Angular Dependence of Fringe Spacing 1 - 31 Analyzing an Interferogram 1 - 35 Optimum Interferometer Spacing 1 - 37 A Benefit of Phase Switching 1 - 40 Focal Point Heating 1 - 41 Square Law Detection 1 - 44 Phase Switched Interferometer 1 - 47 Finding the Local Meridian 1 - 49 Antenna Temperature 1 - 51
Solar Disturbances at 265 and 435 MHz 2 - 1 Amateur Radio Telescope at 1296 MHz 2 - 3 Salvaged Mairsat Project 2 - 7
Beginner's Microwave Radio Telescope 3 - 1 4 GHz TVRO Telescope: Preliminary Observations 3 - 8 Very Small Radio Telescope at 4 GHz (Horn) 3 - 11 4 GHz TRF (Tuned Radio Frequency) Receiver 3 - 16 4 GHz Interferometer: 4m Baseline 3 - 21 4 Ghz Interferometer: 28m Baseline 3 - 24 Solar Radius at 4 GHz: 28m Baseline 3 - 26 Solar Radius at 4 GHz: 4m Baseline 3 - 28 Small 10 GHz Radio Telescope 3 - 31 The Moon at 11 GHz 3 - 34 Computerized Observations at 11 GHz 3 - 37 12 GHz Radio Telescope 3 - 41 Small 12 GHz Demonstration Radio Telescope 3 - 46 Back Yard Radio Astronomy 3 - 49 Multi-antenna Radio Telescope 3 - 55 Home Built Pyramidal Horn Antenna 3 - 56 Home Built Waveguide to Coax Adapter 3 - 64 Spiral Antenna Feeds 3 - 67 Slot vs Spiral Antenna Feeds 3 - 73
Second Detector: Crystal or Vacuum Diode? 4 - 1 Digitizer from an X-Y Recorder 4 - 4 Temperature Effects 4 - 8
Computer Simulated Signal Averaging 5 - 1 Signal Processing by Autocorrelation 5 - 4 Signal Processing by Multiplication 5 - 9 Fourier Transform: Why? 5 - 16 Fourier Analysis: How? 5 - 21 Fourier Synthesis: How? 5 - 27
The Galactic Cenetr by Accident by Sherri Aker 6 - 1 The Sun's Temperature at l = 5 cm by Na Han Chan 6 - 3 Detecting the Galactic Center at 70 cm by Jennifer Hatt 6 - 7 Interferogram Visibility Function for a 1/2 Degree Source by S. W. Lee 6 - 12 Solar Temperature at 7.5 cm by George Lo 6 - 15