One of the main objectives of the Fringe Dwellers is helping amateur radio astronomers coordinate and collaborate on joint observations. A nice thing about RA is that observatories a long distance apart, working together, can perform some really nice science!
This section of the site is dedicated to letting each other know about where we're located, what equipment we've got and what we can offer each other.
If you perform a joint observation we'd be keen to hear from you! We would also appreciate it if you could let us know the results. We're always on the lookout for work to include on the Features page. Fame and fortune is *sure* to follow (...well, maybe not ;)
The table below summarizes the observatories currently registered as part of the network.
| Loc | Name | Fac | Lat | Lon | Freq | Ant | BL | Online? | Status |
| NSW, Narrabri | Simple | Int | 30.314S | 149.672E | 20.1 | 1/2DP | 120 | N | Up |
| NSW, Narrabri | Simpleton | Int | 30.352S | 149.830E | 20.12 | 1/2DP | 37.5 | N | Up |
| NSW, Parkes | Int | 20.13 | 1/2DP | 50,100,150 | N | Up | |||
| MT, Sula | SEMI | Int | 45.890N | 114.060W | 20.1 | 1/2DP | 89 | N | Up |
| NSW, Narrabri | Simple Too | Int | 20 | N | Down |
| Location | Narrabri |
| Name | Simple |
| Contact | David Brodrick |
| brodrick[at]fastmail.fm | |
| Website | TBA |
| Facility | Interferometer |
| Lat | 30.314S |
| Lon | 149.562E |
| Frequency | 20.1 MHz |
| Antenna | 2 pairs of 1/2wl dipoles |
| Baseline Range | 120m |
| Receivers | 2 x Modified RadioJOVE rx'ers, common LO |
| Correlator | "simple" P2 333MHz, 384MB RAM, ISA SB16, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, sac 1.0 |
| Data Availability | . |
| Comments | Power data stored indefinately, audio for 1 week. |
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| Location | Narrabri |
| Name | Simpleton (formerly YASI) |
| Contact | Michael Dahlem |
| Michael.Dahlem[at]csiro.au | |
| Website |
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/mdahlem/ -> Amateur Radio Astronomy ( http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/~bro764/YASI.html ) |
| Facility | Interferometer |
| Lat | 30.352S |
| Lon | 149.830E |
| Frequency | 20.12 MHz |
| Antenna | 2 pairs of 1/2wl dipoles |
| Baseline Range | 10 to 60m |
| Receivers | 2 x T1056, Xtal locked 20.12 MHz, improved bandpass filter, Radioshack 75ohm splitter/combiner, 7-pole 30MHz low pass eliptic filter |
| Correlator | "yakka" K6-2, 300MHz, 384MB RAM, CL Vibra, Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, sac 1.0 |
| Data Availability | Offline |
| Comments | Data available upon request |
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| Location | Parkes |
| Name | |
| Contact | Brett Dawson |
| brett_dawson[at]yahoo.com | |
| Website | TBA |
| Facility | Interferometer |
| Lat | |
| Lon | |
| Frequency | 20.13MHz |
| Antenna | 3 pairs of 1/2wl dipoles |
| Baseline Range | 10 to 150m |
| Receivers | 2 x T1056, Xtal locked 20.13 MHz osc, bandpass filter bypass option |
| Correlator | WinXP running Cygwin |
| Data Availability | Offline |
| Comments | |
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| Location | Narrabri |
| Name | Simple Too |
| Contact | David Brodrick |
| brodrick[at]fastmail.fm | |
| Website | TBA |
| Facility | Interferometer |
| Lat | |
| Lon | |
| Frequency | 20MHz |
| Antenna | 2 pairs of 1/2wl dipoles |
| Baseline Range | 10 to 150m |
| Receivers | 2 x T1056, common LO, bandpass filter bypass option |
| Correlator | Intel P3, Linux, sac 0.9 |
| Data Availability | Offline |
| Comments | Currently down for R&D (External LO) |
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| Location | Sula |
| Name | SEMI |
| Contact | Dusty Samouce |
| samouce2[at]juno.com | |
| Website | TBA |
| Facility | Interferometer, Muon Detector, RadioJOVE |
| Lat | 45.89N |
| Lon | 114.06W |
| Frequency | 20.1 MHz |
| Antenna | SEMI: 2 pairs of 1/2wl dipoles, JOVE: S phasing & anti-phase NS |
| Baseline Range | 89m EW (fixed) |
| Receivers | 3 x RadioJOVE |
| Correlator | Win XP running Cygwin, sac 1.0 |
| Data Availability | Offline |
| Comments | Data available upon request |
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