AJ4CO Observatory

See link for station diagram and calibration temperatures:
http://www.radiojove.org/SUG/#diags

Antenna:
8-element TFD Array
Beam steering: see AJ4CO Receiver Antenna Log XLS file (email request to davetyp@typnet.net)
Feed system loss, balun inputs to calibration plane: 4.3 dB.
    
Receiver:
2 X Radio Jove receivers tuned to approximately 20.1 MHz
RJ #1 - RCP
RJ #2 - LCP
    
Recording equipment:
Radio-SkyPipe (RSP) v2.1.17
Rocketfish RF-51SDCD sound card
WinXP Pro SP3

RSP configuration:
Audio sample rate, depth: 12 kHz, 16-bit
RSP sample period: 100 milliseconds (10 Hz)
Averaging over: 1 RSP sample (1,200 sound card samples)
Channel 1: sound card left, average detection method, averaged raw sound card data (RCP)
Channel 2: sound card right, average detection method, averaged raw sound card data (LCP)
Channel 3: calibrated antenna temperature, RCP
Channel 4: calibrated antenna temperature, LCP
CHannel 5: 10*log(RCP/LCP)

Amplitude Calibration:
Cal Plane: Hybrid ring inputs
Noise Gen: AJ4CO Auto Calibrator
Two step cals daily ±3 hours from Jupiter transit


PUBLISH INFO[20 MHz RCP and LCP]