[Discuss-gnuradio] (another newbie...) Other radio-astronomy people?

[Boyd Waters]

Greetings gnuradio people!

I found out about this project via Eric's recent articles in Linux 
Journal. Excellent!

By playing with GNU Radio I hope to better understand some of the 
signal-processing that we use every day at work.

You see, we have a rather large RF front-end to play with -- about the 
size of Washington, DC.
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/evla/

This sounds like I'm boasting -- but actually it has been a humbling 
experience. As of yet there is no accessible training material for 
computer software folks like me: all the training is on-the-job.

I hope to improve that: by learning how to use (and perhaps by 
contributing to) GNU Radio, I can get a real "hands-on" feel for how a 
radio-telescope works.

I am quite interested in the USB-based front-end.

And I'm interested in hearing from other radio-astronomy people working 
on the GNU Radio project. (It would not surprise me if some of them 
were in the same building as I am...)


Thanks!


~ boyd

Boyd Waters
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Socorro, New Mexico
http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/~bwaters