Setting Up and Operating the ESA-Dresden Radio Telescope

Joachim Köppen Strasbourg 2009

Two views of the ESA-Dresden radio telescope: The designer's prototype (left) and at right our instrument on the roof, after turning it upside down in order to be able to perform flux calibrations easily. The buckets filled with concrete provide the necessary weight that has withstood all windy weather sofar.

Our Manuals and Reports

• Our Evaluation Report to ESA (3.2 MB)
• Experiences from Operations until 2010 (600 kB)
• Experiences from Operations until 2012(1.8 MB)

• Marc Cornwall's Project Report (2.9 MB) on windload considerations, observations of TV satellites, and a systematic survey of the radio sky
• How to do Solar drift scans (700 kB)
• How to do Lunar drift scans (1.1 MB)
• Impoved Lunar observations (200 kB)
• Determination of System Temperature (400 kB)
• Stability and Accuracy of the Positioning System (70 kB)
• preliminary (!!) notes on the Antenna Pattern (130 kB)

Designers' Manuals on the Telescope

• Final Report on Telescope Design (700 kB)
• Assembly Manual (3.4 MB)
• Flux Calibration Report (250 kB)
• Operating Manual (650 kB)

• Manual for the AMA Receiver (2.2 MB)

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last update: Nov. 2009 J.Köppen