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Fixed and Mobile RFI Search Facilities at Medicina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

S. Montebugnoli
Affiliation:
Institute of Radio Astronomy, CNR, Bologna, Italy
G. Tomassetti
Affiliation:
Institute of Radio Astronomy, CNR, Bologna, Italy
C. Bortolotti
Affiliation:
Institute of Radio Astronomy, CNR, Bologna, Italy
M. Roma
Affiliation:
Institute of Radio Astronomy, CNR, Bologna, Italy

Abstract

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Fixed and mobile RFI search facilities at the Medicina radio astronomy station are described. A complex system of wide-band antennas that can be steered, has been designed and installed on the top of a 25-m high tower and connected with a wide-band sweeping receiver system. At present it works from 0.08 GHz up to 2.5 GHz in continuous mode. Low-noise front ends are used in the radio astronomy bands. A mobile system, equipped with a similar receiving system, has been designed to facilitate the interfering transmitter's position localization.

Type
Part 4. Threats to Radio Astronomy
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001