Proceedings, 2008 Conference of the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers

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Proceedings of the 2008 Conference of the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers

Now available -- Proceedings of the 2008 Conference of the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers. Many SETI League members contributed to this June 2008 Conference, hosted by our sister society, SARA. Published by the American Radio Relay League. ISBN 0-87259-136-0.
Suggested Contribution: $20 postpaid in US, $27 postpaid elsewhere.

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Table of Contents

Dedication
Letter of Welcome from SARA President Charles Osborne
SARA Mission Statement
2008 SARA Conference Schedule
2008 SARA Conference Abstracts
Announcement of Keynote Speaker, Dr. Steven J. Dick
Cosmology and Biology, by Dr. Steven J. Dick, Chief Historian, NASA
FFT Simplified, by Bruce Randall, WD4JQV
A remotely accessible Amateur Radio Astronomy Observatory, by Charles Forster, WA9ACI
Innovative Experiments for the Radio Astronomy Classroom, by John C. Mannone
Characterizing a Microwave Radiometer for Solar Plasma Observations, by Jamie Riggs
The Biggest Offset Dish in the World, by Charles Osborne, K4CSO
Ku-band Microwave Radio Astronomy Interferometry Laboratory, by David Fields, N4HBO, et.al.
TAOSON - Tamke Allan Observatory Solar Observation Network, by Bill Lord et.al.
Searching for Earthlike Planets, by James VanProoyen, N8PQK
Observing a Lunar Eclipse at 12 GHz, by Paul Oxley
Improvements to a Digital Baseband Four Channel Receiver, by Paul Oxley
Solid State Spectral Imager (SSSI) on a Chip and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, by Thaddaeus Hannel et.al.
Introducing a new Radio Astronomy software application, by Shad Nygren, KD7WMX
NASA Space Exploration and Radio Astronomy, by John C. Mannone
A low cost Pulsar Machine, by James VanProoyen, N8PQK
Sputnik and SETI: Uniting East and West, by Prof. H. Paul Shuch, N6TX
Interferometry of the Sun at 4 GHz, by Wayne Thresher, et.al.
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