SETI Engineering Notebook

Summary Of Contents

Volume 1 - Initial installation 1998 to August 2004

• Antenna and rotor problems

• Installation of the first receiver

• Start of the SML language

• Comb line filter and receiver bandwidth

• Integration of the Sky Map and beginning of the waterfall presentation

• An epiphany

• More rotor repair

• Database start

• Yet Another Antenna rebuilt (YARR)

Volume 2 -   November 2004 to August 2006

• OLE Server and SETI Net Clock

• Spectrum analyzer

• First Remote SETI software build

• YARR

• Addition of second receiver with IF down converter

• Nearing completion of Remote SETI software

Volume 3 -  From September 2006 to January 2008

• Rebuild of the Spectrum Analyzer and the SML Generator

• More SML, Raising the antenna

• First signal that 'could have been' a SETI beacon

• Stupid astronomer trick (Kitt Peak)

• Address space calculations (12 million places to visit)

• SET Net now running full time at full resolution

• Major rotor repair.  System down four months.

Volume 4 - From January 2008 to March 2009

• Gain of 180 degrees view and start of SRT Radio Telescope project

• Noise souse and decisions on user interface.  End of Paraclipse antenna.  First Sun Shots

• Tracking down a WOW band noise spike and work on the Radio Astronomy receiver