Detecting Pulsars (Rotating Neutron Stars) with an RTL-SDR

Interesting article. A pdf version of the East and Gancio paper referenced in the article at at [1].

Its also worth noting that they used a 30 meter dish, which is probably on the large side for amateur radio astronomy.

[1] http://www.britastro.org/radio/projects/East_AmateurPulsarDe...

Before realizing this was on a site for the RTL-SDR software, I found it very odd that the author felt the need to define "Pulsar" but not "RTL-SDR".

For those punching through without investigating, "RTL-SDR is a very cheap software defined radio that uses a DVB-T TV tuner dongle based on the RTL2832U chipset." So yea... this is pretty cool.