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thomas_tel

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Dwingeloo radio telescope
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thomas_tel··on Venus passes between the Earth and sun this weekend
We managed to bounce a signal of Venus this weekend, due to the proximity (42M km):

https://www.camras.nl/en/blog/2025/first-venus-bounce-with-t...

thomas_tel··on Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope
We only see the carrier because it has such narrow bandwidth, the modulated data is for us not distinguishable from the noise. FYI, at this data rate the carrier contains 25% of the transmitted power.
thomas_tel··on Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope
The "live" plot (with the peak) uses indeed 1Hz bins (of 1 second), that we average over the last 2-3 minutes to reduce the noise. We could go even narrower, I might give that a try on the recorded data.