INTRO
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BUILDING THE TELESCOPE
SOFTWARE
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OBSERVING
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DATA ANALYSIS
 
 

Radio Telescope – Introduction

Radio JOVE focuses on observations of natural radio emissions from Jupiter, the Sun, the Earth, and the radio background noise from our Milky Way galaxy at "decametric" wavelengths. In 1999, we introduced the original JOVE radio telescope kit, comprising an antenna, receiver, software, and optional calibrator. Over 2500 original Radio JOVE radio telescopes have been sold worldwide, and we continue to work with and support these observers and the original hardware and software.

Because it became difficult to obtain parts for the original RJ1.1 kit, we introduced a multifrequency system in 2022 using the commercially built Software Defined Radio (SDR) receiver RSP1A from SDRplay. In 2025, The RSP1A has been replaced with the RSP1B model and this also required a change in intermediary software, called SDR Console. This software then allows the Radio-Sky Spectrograph software to display the output as a time-frequency spectrogram. This new radio telescope kit, Radio JOVE 2.1, is now available.

Find out more about our Radio Telescopes at these links:

examples of building the RJ 2.0 radio telescope