An agile receiver-switching solution for use with parabolic antennas.

We present a solution adopted for the Medicina antenna to carry out the fast, remote, and automatic change of many microwave receivers used for observation in radio astronomy. This new setup allows the capability to switch receivers located at the antenna's primary and secondary foci in a coupl...

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Published in:IEEE Antennas & propagation magazine. 42, 1 (2000).
Other Authors: Orfei, Alessandro
Format: Article
Language:English
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