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Over sixty amateur and professional radio astronomers from all over the world participated in the Second European Radio Astronomy Congress in Heppenheim, Germany. This group is nearly double the number who attended the first such Congress three years earlier. SETI League photo

Part of the crowd listening to two days of lectures at the Starkensburg Observatory. This year's Congress was co-sponsored by The SETI League. SETI League photo

Sven Alexander Schuch, DG3GBQ, shows off his EME antennas for 2 meters, 70 cm, 23 cm, and 13 cm, at the radio Observatory of Zollernalb. SETI League photo

From Karlsrhue Germany, Ernst Lankeit DJ6MR analyzes nine years of solar observations at 235 MHz, using an 11 turn helix antenna and Dicke switch receiver of his own design. SETI League photo

Mike Gingell, KN4BS, former President of the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers, discusses SARA activities in the US. SETI League photo

SETI League German regional coordinator Peter Wright, DJ0BI, describes progress at the European Radio Astronomy Club's radio telescope in Mannheim. SETI League photo

Mr. Armin Falb of the European Radio Astronomy Club instructs Congress attendees in the basics of inerferometry. SETI League photo

An attentive Elisabeth Piotelat, SETI League regional coordinator for France, attends her first Radio Astronomy Congress. SETI League photo

Dr. Nicholas Heijblok, The SETI League's volunteer regional coordinator for Holland, describes his home-built 2.6 meter parabolic dish for the 21 cm hydrogen line. SETI League photo

Mr. Thomas Griegel, sales manager for Leybold Vakuum GmbH, demonstrates an innovative Stirling engine cryogenic pump for cooling radio telescope front ends to 77K. This is the technique being considered by the SETI Institute for its Allen Telescope Array. SETI League photo

From Belgium, SETI League member Erik Smith ON1DAG speaks of how to help newcomers to learn the basics of radio astronomy. SETI League photo

Jurgen Moraweitz, DG5BBW, of the Netherlands Foundation for Radio Astronomy (NFRA), shows us design details for THEA, the Thousand Element Array. SETI League photo

Dr. Martin Neumann of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy teaches about receiving the decametric radio waves from Jupiter. SETI League photo

Peter Wright, his wife Angelika Gherke, and Alfred, caretaker for the Starkensburg Observatory, announce that the next European Radio Congress, a three-day event, will again be hosted here in September 2003. SETI League photo

H. Paul Shuch, executive director of The SETI League (co-sponsors of this Congress), was behind the camera for most of the sessions. During a coffee break, SETI League member David Woolley managed to turn the tables on him. G3ZZF photo

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