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AJ4CO Terminated Folded Dipole and Tunable Wideband Receiver system

ResourceID
spase://SMWG/Instrument/Ground/AJ4CO/TFD-TWB

Description

Terminated Folded Dipole and Tunable Wideband Receiver system at the AJ4CO Radio Astronomy Observatory, High Springs, Florida.

The TFD array consists of two 4-element (32 foot) square array. Each antenna element is 32 feet long. Bandwidth is 2 MHz. Polarization is simulataneous RCP and LCP. TFD array is aligned to true north. The FSX-8S spectrograph operates at 17-33 MHz simultaneous RCP and LCP.

See the Information URL for a link to a document providing additional descriptions of the instrument characteristics.

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Instrument

ResourceID
spase://SMWG/Instrument/Ground/AJ4CO/TFD-TWB
ResourceHeader
ResourceName
AJ4CO Terminated Folded Dipole and Tunable Wideband Receiver system
ReleaseDate
2022-02-20 12:34:56.789
RevisionHistory
RevisionEvent
ReleaseDate
2022-02-20 12:34:56.789
Note
RadioJOVE: Update obsolete radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov and www.typnet.net URLs, Resource Header Description reformated. Metadata submitted by J.M. Weygand on 2022-02-11, reviewed by LFB
Description

Terminated Folded Dipole and Tunable Wideband Receiver system at the AJ4CO Radio Astronomy Observatory, High Springs, Florida.

The TFD array consists of two 4-element (32 foot) square array. Each antenna element is 32 feet long. Bandwidth is 2 MHz. Polarization is simulataneous RCP and LCP. TFD array is aligned to true north. The FSX-8S spectrograph operates at 17-33 MHz simultaneous RCP and LCP.

See the Information URL for a link to a document providing additional descriptions of the instrument characteristics.

Contacts
RolePersonStartDateStopDateNote
1.TechnicalContactspase://SMWG/Person/David.Typinski
2.MetadataContactspase://SMWG/Person/James.M.Weygand
3.MetadataContactspase://SMWG/Person/Lee.Frost.Bargatze
InformationURL
Name
RadioJOVE Spectrograph Users Group
URL
Description

This site provide station diagrams and other reports for the receiver systems at several radio observatories associated with the RadioJOVE project.

InformationURL
Name
AJ4CO Radio Astronomy Publications
URL
Description

This site provides descriptions of radio receiver systems at AJ4CO as well as other radio astronomy-related documentation

InstrumentType
Spectrometer
InvestigationName
Terminated Folded Dipole and FSX-8S spectrograph at AJ4CO
ObservatoryID