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Radio Astronomy, Technology, and the Noisy World Classroom Exercises in Radio Frequency Interference.

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1 Radio Astronomy, Technology, and the Noisy World Classroom Exercises in Radio Frequency Interference

2 What is radio astronomy?

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4 The Radio Sky

5 The Optical Sky PerseusAuriga Taurus Camelopardus

6 What emits radio waves? Recipe for Radio Waves Hot Gases Spectral lines Electrons and magnetic fields

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14 Big Point: Any accelerating charge emits radio waves!

15 Big Point # 2: Celestial Objects at Enormous Distances Appear “dim” 0.00000000000000000000000001 watt/m 2 /Hz !!

16 The Rest of the Story: What else emits radio waves?

17 The Observatory in Green Bank

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19 The Rest of the Rest of the Story Satellites!

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22 The GBT: Why does it look so funny?

23 The GBT October, 1999

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