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Technical Topics => The RF Workbench => Topic started by: ThaDood on February 01, 2021, 2016 UTC

Title: West Virginia's Green Bank Rf Telescope gets a TX upgrade!
Post by: ThaDood on February 01, 2021, 2016 UTC
https://public.nrao.edu/news/successful-test-new-planetary-radar/    Seen this on the SWL'ing Post. Ever been there for a tour? It's well worth it! Especially, if you can get a scientist to lead the tour. (Hint-hint..) Don't request the interns to do it.   
Title: Re: West Virginia's Green Bank Rf Telescope gets a TX upgrade!
Post by: Charlie_Dont_Surf on February 10, 2021, 2050 UTC
It's in the National Radio Quiet Zone. Turn off your radios (all of them) when you enter the zone.

It would be really cool if the radar had enough resolution to see the base of the Apollo lander that was left behind and the "dune buggy" the astronauts used (for the first time in the Apollo program) while on the moon surface.
Title: Re: West Virginia's Green Bank Rf Telescope gets a TX upgrade!
Post by: ThaDood on February 12, 2021, 1830 UTC
Well, here's more info about Green Bank, and Mars,    https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/wvs-green-bank-telescope-to-answer-calls-from-nasas-2020-mars-rover/?fbclid=IwAR1TaN5oti2a8xoq4bwiKb3T0BnWTA5lZjtycLB4s1eKn-puee559qbmiZA    Talk about some DX!