Arroway Mk I home-made radiotelescope is on the go!

After two years of study and research, finally the first version of the Arroway (Mk I) radiotelescope is ready for testing.

Using simple components, like a copper-wire monopole antenna inside a cookie can, and a Nooelec SDR + Amplifier as a LNB, it's specifically designed to detect the Hidrogen Line (1420Mhz).

All this using a home-made adapter to mount it in a manually operated EQ2-3 Skywatcher equatorial mount, and GQRX as control and tunning software, running on a Debian laptop.

The horn is not yet ready, also there is no signal filtering. Soon we will do the first real testings outside, trying to detect the sun. Then I'll decide which design path will be adopted.

Further info about the projecto (like diagrams, etc) will be released then.