Re: [casper] Colombian Radio Interferometer

2016-03-29 Thread Vereese Van Tonder
Hi Juan, I think you've got a great project and it reminds me of a Masters project done by JP Jansen van Rensburg titled "The design of a two-element correlation interferometer operating at L-band". He designed an interferometer system using a ROACH1 board operating at L band. If you're

Re: [casper] Colombian Radio Interferometer

2016-03-29 Thread Gary, Dale E.
Hi Juan Camilo, This is certainly doable with ROACH hardware. Before embarking on it, though, you should do some tests of the radio-frequency interference (RFI) environment there. Your target frequency range is one of the toughest in terms of RFI, so you may be frustrated in your goal even if

[casper] Colombian Radio Interferometer

2016-03-29 Thread Juan Camilo Guevara Gomez
Dear all, Let me introduce myself, my name is Juan Camilo Guevara, I am a Master Student in Astronomy at the National University of Colombia. I am working in the design and implementation of a radio interferometer of two elements to observe the Sun in a range of frequencies between 100 MHz and 1