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Interference Problems and Radio Astronomy in the UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R. J. Cohen*
Affiliation:
Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9DL, U.K.

Abstract

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The radio regulations often require frequency bands to be shared between radio astronomy and services which transmit. This poses severe problems in a small island, given the sensitivity of radio astronomy receivers. The survival of radio astronomy in these circumstances depends on wide awareness of the problems. Some of the current sharing problems in the UK are discussed.

Type
Radio Frequency Interference
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1991

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