Hello, I am in the process of assembling a home built radio telescope. The signal from the receiver dish will be passed via a coax cable through the arduino unit into a laptop that has been set up with Raspbian and a python 3 routine in order to run the astronomy software I have got.
What I would like to know is what or how do I connect the coax cable to the arduino unit?
I am not au fait with circuit boards or coding of any kind as the only computer or calculator used when I was at school was called a brain in your head (provided you had one).
What kind of signal comes from the disc? What is "arduino unit"? What do You want the "arduino unit" to do to the signal? Have You searched in the radio amateur pond for such projects? You can't be the first guy having this ldea.
Do you have any online references you can share? If radio telescopes capture radio frequencies, then there must be some other module than arduino that processes the signal before passing to arduino or pc.
The signal will be coming from a satellite dish that has been recycled as a the front end of a radio telescope. A satellite signal finder is attached to the dish and a coax cable runs from that to the arduino board which in turn is hooked up to a laptop via the USB port. The arduino unit is used to turn the analogue signal from the dish into a digital signal that is read by the python based software on the laptop. The only thing I need to know now is which two of the analogue inputs on the arduino I need to use.