Tracking extraterrestrial signals using the Super SID and Radio JOVE kits
Department of Science Technology, Physics Electronics Unit, the Federal Polytechnic, P.M.B. 5351, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.
Research Article
World Journal of Advanced Engineering Technology and Sciences, 2022, 06(02), 100–111.
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjaets.2022.6.2.0089
Publication history:
Received on 05 July 2022; revised on 10 August 2022; accepted on 12 August 2022
Abstract:
A 20.1MHz dipole radio telescope was assembled, characterized and tested to detect extraterrestrial signals from planet Jupiter. Two element dipole arrays were built for the detection of 20.1MHz radio emission from the Jupiter-Io interaction, strong solar burst, the galactic background and the transit of the galactic center. Using the specifications and the layout, the dipole array was constructed. The block diagram, the schematic diagram built for NASA was used to solder together the radio frequency band pass filter, audio Preamplifier and audio amplifier to make the radio JOVE receiver. This was characterized, tested and tuned by setting the tuning knob to 20.0MHz. The dipole antenna was connected to the receiver and a variety of radio frequency emissions were detected. These signals were captured on a personal computer via the radio Jupiter Pro 3.8.3 and radio skypipe 2.6.5 software compatible with windows 7 OS and has python programme which converts data from the sod format to ASCII format to conveniently analyzed them. The data locally captured was correlated with other stations of the world. Specifically the analyzed chart of 14th July 2022 shows a lot of similarities with that captured by radio telescope UNIVERSUM shared with the global web repository.
Keywords:
Dipole Antenna; Solar Burst; Galaxy; Radio-telescope; Sky pipe
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