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Old 09-10-2015, 10:06 PM
glend (Glen)
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Given the astro gear you already have why not consider Spectroscopy instead? Radio astronomy these days is all about computer processing of signal, pretty boring stuff if you have ever listened to it. I used to run the SETI desktop app, which processed block of SETI data, it ran in idle cycles on my PC. My son ran it on his as well. You could watch the app display the processing of the data block and then report back to the SETI main site. Obviously in all the years of SETI distributed processing nothing was ever found. Background 'hiss' is not really very rewarding which is why computers do the work. Sure you might be able to listen to a pulsar but that gets old quickly.
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