Engineering Notebook
Table Of Contents
Volume 14 From January 2020 to 2021
- Finishing up SETI software
- Changes to the Neural Simulator.
- Start of HDF5 conversion to adapt to Delphi and eventually the SETI Net search algorighm
- SETI Net Decommisioned 2021-12-04
Volume 13 From January 2018 to December 2019
- Moving to the Neuron simulator and Neuron Lab and Delphi Error E1026
- Wrap up odds and ends like com ports and HackRF setup
- Audio problem (now fixed)
- Mechanical problems with antenna rotor
- HackRF setup in SDR Console
Volume 12 From January 2018 to December 2018
- Compiling a 'C' program and testing a Delphi DLL.
- Testing the Pixel front end.
- Building Cubic SDR and Creating a KiCAD library.
- Building the SETI Net Cosmic Ray Pixel
- Reworking the Head End Electronics
Volume 11 From January 2017 to December 2017
- Building CubicSDR with Visual Studio 217
- Rebuilding the WAMP server and redirects
- Passing strings in 'C' to a dll
- Working on AnvetTest Spectrum Analyzer
- Freezing Spec Ana
- HackRF Albatross
- Image refresh in HTML
- Passing Strings to DLLs
- Multiple Table Joins
- SDR Console I/Q Problem
- Un-Mangling C++ Dll
- SDR Console setup for SETI
- Threads in Delphi by Marting Harvey
- Creating a DLL in C++
- Latest Software Release
- Interfacing SDR Console with SETI
Volume 10 From January 2016 to December 2016
- More Moving to 64 bit database system
- Another State Machine
- Leak fix
- Working on chirp
- Addition of hardware mixer
- Start up folder
- Building Remote Objects (client/servers)
- New signal discriminator
- New Receiver (HackRF)
- Running VS as admin
Volume 9 From March 2015 to December 31 2015
- Moving to a 64 bit system
- Suppressing PHP Warnings, WAMP Wiring the modules
- Audio Mixer, BLOBs,State Machine
- Start on Long Scan Mode
Volume 8 From July 2014 to March 2015
- An example of a paradigm shift
- Working on HackRF One
- Comparing the Minimum Detectable Signal between HackRF One, ICOM R7000 Receiver and the RTL SDR
- WTF is that audio spike
Volume 7 From July 2012 to May 2014
- Learning the Arduino
- Installing Microsoft Visual Studio
- The Arduino Development system
- Learning to to GET from a web site
- Crazy Mouse
- The Netduino
- State machine for the Pixel
- Dead Man for the Pixel
- SML work for the new database
- External database
- Moving to Delphi XE2
- More State Change charts
Volume 6 From December 2011 to March 2012
- Jump Skip Logic, add Twitter Autofeed, Hunting for Birds, things that bug me and lines in the audio
- Bird Hunt, New Signal Generator and state machine revisited
- unCUBE dongle, Control Panel problems, Eureka Log, Dominatrix, Locked Clock, Locked WindFreak synthesizer, K6QPV beacon
Volume 5 - From March 2009 to December 2011
- Radio Astronomy Receiver USB drivers for the HPSDR, firmware updates for HPSDR Ozy Layout pipes
- Start of Radio Astronomy learning site
- Total power receiver, Noise Source info., ENR, Head End Test
- Virtual cable setup #2, Mathematica, Spec analyzer fix, Raster Scan, 2 Port Kerr
- Buying an R7000 and fixing it, AGC disable
- Virtual cable setup #3, BPF check, Bad LNA, Calculating LNA noise
- L4/L5 search and crappy MySQL Workbench, ERR Diagram ,MySQL, FrontPage setup for dBase
- Importing ActiveX controls, Delphi Components, Lohninger blow up XE, jpg Comments, IP Camera
Volume 4 - From January 2008 to March 2009
- Gain of 180 degrees view and start of SRT Radio Telescope project
- Noise source and decisions on user interface. End of Paraclipse antenna. First Sun Shots
- Tracking down a WOW band noise spike and work on the Radio Astronomy receiver
- Noise calibrator and sun scans
- Elevation error problem
- Az El motors installed
Volume 3 - From September 2006 to January 2008
- Rebuild of the Spectrum Analyzer and the SML Generator
- More SML, Raising the antenna
- First signal that 'could have been' a SETI beacon
- Stupid astronomer trick (Kitt Peak)
- Address space calculations (12 million places to visit)
- SET Net now running full time at full resolution
- Major rotor repair. System down four months.
- Band Pass Filter and Tone Generator
Volume 2 - November 2004 to August 2006
- OLE Server and SETI Net Clock
- Spectrum analyzer
- Az motor problems
- YARR
- LNA and known beacons
- Distribution Amplifier and IF down converter
- Kerr Modules and power supply
- Lock-To-Lock logic and counter weights, Status page
Volume 1 Initial Installation 1998 to August 2004
- Antenna and Rotor problems
- Installation of the first receiver
- Start of the SML language
- Comb line filter and receiver bandwidth
- Integration of the Sky Map and beginning of the waterfall presentation
- An epiphany
- More rotor repair
- Database start