Quiet Skies Project

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Quiet Skies Project

• Sue Ann Heatherly, Ron Maddalena
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory

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Why Dark Skies/Quiet Skies? Optical and radio
astronomy can be done from the ground!
Credit Windows to the Universe, thence to
NASA/STSCI/JHU
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NRAO Telescopes
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Why quiet skies?
0.00000000000000000000000001
watts/m2/Hz
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http//www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.html
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Quiet Skies Project and IYA
How Can You Get Involved?

• Conduct Be an Interference Detective Activity
  in your museum, school, scout meeting AM Radio
  Scavenger Hunt of any interior space.
• Can be Try it at Home, or guided activity.
• Limited to AM Frequencies.

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• Measure RFI in your communities using Laptop and
  Xirrus widget
• Download free widget and install.
• Measure RFI from wireless hotspots!

www.xirrus.com/library/wifitools.php
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• Borrow Quiet Skies Kits
• Sensitive instrument which detects RFI at
  800-1700 MHz (scientifically interesting).
• Loan Program 50 units in the US,
  each unit forwarded to 10-20 locations
  throughout IYA.

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• Measurements reported to NRAO data base resulting
  in

• the radio version of

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