I am building and testing a concentrating, condensed, resonant array of Loop Antennas - based on patent 512,340. However, the entire array only has to be wrapped with 2 adjacent wires (30 AWG in my case). According to the patent - one wire acts as a capacitive barrier between the other wires - each with it’s own wirelength & LC resonant frequency - and so you end up (apparently) with an easy-to-wrap array of loop antennas that are shaped like a cone. I am considering a perforated Grade 1 Titanium sheet bent into a cone - but 304 SS is cheaper - then covering it with beeswax, and then wrapping my 2 wires on it. All collected frequencies along the array have a shared point of phase termination at the Apex of the cone. This happens when the slant height & circumference (at any given height are equal) - which occurs at a constant base angle of 80.842 degrees. Therefore, the apex is apparently the best place to put a near field sensor attached to an LNA & SDR.
I will be using this antenna to test a theory that galaxies occur at pinch zones & armatures extend across EROSITA bubbles - and may actually be 2 plasma conduits that are 180 degrees out of phase and wrapped in a 3D helical configuration.
I would also like to share A.I.'s theoretical design for a Cosmic Web layout - based on the idea that the 2 plasma conduits are interleaved like the patent.
Looks like a fun project. Having that much thin lossy wire tells me that you are operating at low frequencies. It may be good to see how the pros do it and what frequencies are of interest. Those radio signals from the sky signals are very few Janskys.
In an event, I prefer to operate around 500 THz. I get good gain with small aperture and the recievers are cheap and fairly sensitive.
Most VHF to microwave radio astronomy receivers run at cryo temperatures and have the advantage of large aperture, high gain antennas.
Yeah, NRAO is big on getting the frequency higher and higher, as well. However, I wish to find something we may have missed when radio astronomy became popular.
The 1 meter length (and 30 AWG wire) limits the wirelength resonance to the UHF and slightly higher (300 Mhz through 15 Ghz). LC resonance potentially allows the range to continue lower. You are likely using a reflective dish & a none-wire method to be picking up anything higher than that. I’m going back to historical ways of achieving signal reception, since historical ways are proving to be typically more accurate to the truth.
IMO, Dish antennas don’t have a good way to maintain signal accuracy if they rely on smashing the signal against a wall to get it to concetrate.
Examples of historical forgetfulness:
a. Charles Janet’s spiral periodic table & fractal/recursive/solid-state methodology to describe atoms,
b. the permittivity/permeability formula for the speed of light versus using a constant,
c. plasma cosmology versus big bang cosmology,
d. Pilot Wave Theory (with slight modifications) versus the standard model - to reach a Newtonian Celestial model.
e. Biocapacitance instead of ATP to describe energy in a cell, etc.
f. Normalized, all-positive charges & particles - in a charged, cosmic web of cold, dusty, self-organizing plasma (instead of dark matter & dark energy).
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I will; however, emphasize that the AAVSO is not an appropriate audience for this work. We primarily operate at optical through near-infrared wavelengths. The Society of Radio Astronomers would be much more appreciative of your efforts and more likely to provide you with useful feedback. Please see Email Discussion List | Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers.