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275 - SETI Database On The Web - 2012-05-14

Now that the Control Panel, and all its modules that make it run are finally cooking along I can turn my attention back to making the database visible on the web site.  This is the short term goal:

• Demo - Build a demo application using the RAD PHP tool set,

• Grid - Populate a simple grid control

• LocalHost -  Have it show up on the local web site. 

This is a cook book for that first task (click on the thumbnails):

Connect to dB		Open Connect		New App
Drag Dataset		Save All		Looking Good with partial Target Database

 

 

274 - False Positives - 2012-05-12

The system is working well - might be too well.  I'm getting a lot of hits as I scan L4 this afternoon.  About two an hour.  When I go back to falsify the hits I'm having trouble seeing them in the waterfall and the detection logic is not re-finding them either. 

 

One just came on.  Lets look at it:

Waterfall clearly shows two signals.  One at 1375,796,590 the other at 1375,796,809 - 220 HZ apart.  When I go out of Alarm mode and restart the SpecAna and Waterfall I cannot find the signals again.  I don't think the receiver or the antenna changed during the switch over.

What could be causing this?

 

273 - Operating Better Than Ever - TO DO List 2012-05-11

The changes I made in the Spectrum Analyzer and the Control Panel have smoothed out the operation greatly.  There are still many to do items: