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Surplus PrimeStar Dishes => Radio Telescope Array?
Sean Clifford asks: "Anyone
have suggestions on how to get started setting up an amateur radio
telescope array using a ton of old PrimeStar dishes? I've read a
couple of articles like this
one, that makes this idea seem good in theory. Adapting some gear
for RVs to steer the dishes should be simple, but does anyone know of
good open source software for controlling them? And *nix software
for collecting, filtering, and analyzing the data would be sweet
too. I've got a couple of hundred dishes in the back yard at work
that are screaming for some type of use other than recycling. I'm
already adapting a couple for a wireless network, but would like to
see what I can do with the rest."
He also said that he was selling them to Japan, so it soulds like he knows what he is doing.
Because anybody who can sell a product to a country that sells 14 year old girls' used panties, shrinkwrapped, out of vending machines definitely has their shit together.
Hey Taco! Looks like you're using the "infinite monkeys and typewriters" scheme to generate Ask Slashdots again...