Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance detector from Stanford U. SuperSID project.
This project is based around Tom Hagen's SUPERSID amplifier circuit, a basic loop antenna, and a Raspberry Pi.
I am a very, very amateur astronomer with a love for radio astronomy that spans back to 1998 when I was a wee lad at Western Kentucky University. While my background since then has been in mechanical engineering and manufacturing, I have always loved radio astronomy, the universe we float through, and learning as much as possible.
This project is to keep me entertained, and really nothing else 😄.
I came across the SuperSID project on the SARA website and immediately fell in love with it because it gave me a chance to get my feet back into radio astronomy for as cheap as possible, and I could combine this with my newfound love of making and programing.
- Have fun with radio astronomy
- Learn how to build a functioning antenna and system from scratch
- Get a working, usable systrem
- Contribute what little I can to the scientific community
- Learn about low frequency radio astronomy and it's applications
Using sberl/supersid as a base.
Hardware
- Build antenna
- Amp
- Buy components and board
- Assemble
- Debug
- Source Raspberry PI
- Source USB soundcard
Software
- Setup Raspberry (Using Pi 3A+ cause it was here)
- Test sberl/supersid for basic functionality and learning
- Upload to local database see issue
- Finalize this repo on the Pi