Without beautiful images, the appeal to amateurs is very weak. How complicated would be to use one of these for scanning so we can obtain an image of the sky?
I saw a post a while ago where someone made a map of their room by moving some sensor (measured either noise level or wifi signal) around with stepper motors.
Thanks for that link. That is uber nerdy
And very exciting!
The results of his 3d wifi survey, leave one begging for more fun research with those tools.
I think you underestimate amateurs, but nonetheless I guess you could construct an image of radio emissions from the signals.
On the contrary, understanding what can be gleaned from radio waves makes amateur radio astronomy alluring. I've been obsessed since nearly 30 years.
amateur astronomers are really into this kind of things actually