Proceedings, 2009 Conference of the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers

Proceedings, 2009 Conference of the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers are now available in print and on CD-ROM!

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Table of Contents

• Letter of Welcome from SARA President Tom Crowley
• SARA Mission Statement
• 2009 SARA Conference Schedule
• 2009 SARA Conference Abstracts
• Announcement of Keynote Speaker, Dr. Jill Tarter
• Fifty years of SETI science and technology, by Prof. H. Paul Shuch
• 16 million channels and there's nothing on! by Marcus Leech
• The magic of Maxwell, by John C. Mannone
• Cosmology and the Big Bang, by Jon Wallace
• Radio astronomy at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, by Ray Fobes
• A radio astronomy phased array for pulsar detection, by Ray Fobes
• Employing polarization-sensitive antennas in radio astronomy, by David Fields and Stan Kurtz
• A multi-band feedhorn for radio astronomy, by Paul Oxley
• First observations with the Allen Telescope Array, by Dr. Jill Cornell Tarter (Keynote Presentation)
• Project Argus progress report, by Prof. H. Paul Shuch
• All-mode RA/SETI receiver based on Gnu Radio and USRP, by Marcus Leech
• Using the IBT disk set, by Jon Wallace
• Proposing a new Radio Quiet Zone on the farside of the moon, by Claudio Maccone
• NRAO 40 foot radio telescope operator's manual, by Richard F. Bradley, Benjamin Malphrus, and Sue Ann Heatherly
• Solar astronomy: plasma detection at radio frequencies, by Rodney Howe
• An improved feed support assembly for a parabolic dish, by David Ocame
• Real and imaginary components of the signal spectral density function, by Jamie Riggs
• The Day the Earth Stood Out, by Prof. H. Paul Shuch
• GRBs and HEPs connected events, by James VanProoyen