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EUCARA-2021 Web Conference, April 17, 2021

April 18, 2021

Author: Harm Munk

EUCARA-2021 Web Conference

EUCARA, the European Conference on Amateur Radio Astronomy, is the biennial conference for amateur radio astronomers, organised in Europe.

The conference would have been held by CAMRAS in 2020 at the site of the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was decided to postpone to 2021. Due to ongoing travel restrictions the CAMRAS organising committee decided to organise the conference as an online edition of EUCARA.

The EUCARA-2021 Web Conference was held on Saturday, April 17, 2021 (the 65th anniversary of the inauguration of the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope). The conference consisted of a keynote talk, and a series of presentations on

radio astronomical observing techniques
radio astronomical observations
radio astronomical instrumentation
the history of radio astronomy
astronomy related phenomena in the Earth’s atmosphere, such as, but not limited to, meteorites and auroras.

Visit the EUCARA website for the program

For the program, abstracts, and the presentations (soon to come) of the EUCARA-2021 conference, visit www.eucara.nl.

For a report on the EUCARA-2018 conference, held in Stockert, Germany, at the site of the Astropeiler Radio Telescope, read our blog post EUCARA-2018 conference report.

EUCARA-2021 Local Organising Committee

Paul Boven
Tammo Jan Dijkema
Hans van der Meer
Harm Munk
Sigrid Witteveen

EUCARA-2018 conference report

November 22, 2018

Author(s): Simon Bijlsma (PA7SB)

Photo(s): CAMRAS (Frans de Jong and Simon Bijlsma) and Astropeiler Stockert e.V.

On Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 September, the third European conference on Amateur Radio Astronomy, EUCARA-2018, took place at the Astropeiler Stockert Radio Telescope in Germany. There we received a warm hospitality from the Stockert volunteers. There were 59 participants from 8 different countries, including Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

From CAMRAS the following volunteers participated: Paul Boven, Simon Bijlsma, Frans de Jong, Jan van Muijlwijk and Harm Munk. Some were accompanied by their partner.

Eleven participants gave presentations about their astronomy projects. Frans and Simon gave a lecture about the development of the meteor scatter webSDR and the detection results with this webSDR receiver. Paul gave a presentation on the new frontend in development of the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope and on VLBI with the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope.

The program and the downloadable presentations are on https://astropeiler.de/european-conference-amateur-radio-astronomy-2018.

On Saturday afternoon there was an excursion to the nearby gigantic 100-meter Effelsberg Radio Telescope and the adjacent LOFAR field.

On Saturday evening the day was evaluated while enjoying a conference dinner and ideas were exchanged about the common hobby of amateur radio astronomy.

On Sunday, Prof. Dr. Michael Kramer from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy gave a lecture on Einstein’s general theory of relativity and how the astronomers at the Max Planck Institute today use these insights to explain the phenomena observed in the universe, such as gravitational waves, black holes and neutron stars.

The Sunday afternoon was reserved for a personal meeting between the participants and the Stockert volunteers and to enjoy the beautiful weather and the view of the beautiful landscapes in the Eifel.

Worth mentioning is the impressive poster session of Stockert: with several tiny antennas and the Adalm SDR set they were able to detect hydrogen in the Milky Way.

EUCARA-2016

April 18, 2016

Author(s): Harm Munk (PE2HRM)

Photo(s): CAMRAS Harry Keizer

Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 April, the CAMRAS foundation organized the second European conference on amateur radio astronomy, EUCARA-2016, in Dwingeloo where EUCARA was a guest at ASTRON.

EUCARA-2016 coincided with the sixtieth anniversary of the inauguration of the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope in 1956. EUCARA is a conference for, but also by, amateur radio astronomers. The program consisted of lectures, demonstrations and posters of the participants in EUCARA-2016. In addition, EUCARA-2016 offered a measuring lab, a planetarium, demonstrations of radio astronomy with the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope and at the end a tour of the Westerbork Radio Telescope.

The conference website is www.eucara.nl. There you will find more information about the program and where most presentations of the lectures can be seen (or will be).

The first EUCARA was held in 2014 at the Astropeiler Radio Telecope in Stockert Germany.

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EUCARA-2021 Web Conference

Visit the EUCARA website for the program

EUCARA-2021 Local Organising Committee