SETI League Photo Gallery

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SETI League member Warren Kidd of Ocean Springs, MS USA, with his 10-foot diameter SETI antenna. Warren's station has been online and collecting data 23 hours a day since 10 January 1998. Warren Kidd photo

Warren's 1420 MHz antenna sports the SETI League feed design, a cylindrical waveguide horn surrounded by a half-wavelength choke ring. Warren Kidd photo

Another view of Warren Kidd's feedhorn assembly. Note the equipment enclosure mounted to the rear of the choke ring. Warren Kidd photo

In this view, we see that the equipment enclosure is actually an ammunition box, bolted to the feedhorn assembly. Warren Kidd photo

A fan mounted on the side of the ammo box provides cooling for the preamplifiers mounted inside. Warren's Low Noise Amplifier exhibits 28 dB of gain and a 0.35 dB noise figure at 1420 MHz. Warren Kidd photo

This neat bundle of wires provides power to the antenna mounted preamplifer, and drives the dish's positioning motors. Warren Kidd photo

Warren's 10-foot dish at zenith, ready to intercept interstellar photons. The dish is operated in meridian transit, able to steer horizon to horizon in a North-South line. Warren Kidd photo

Inside the house, an Icom 7000 receiver hands off audio to a SoundBlaster 64 card in Warren's homebrew 200 MHz Pentium computer, equipped with 64 MBytes of RAM. For Digital Signal Processing, Warren runs the FFTDSP 4.2u program. Here he's detecting a passing GPS navigation satellite. Warren Kidd photo

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