Hi guys, just a very quick impromptu video: I'm at the uh uh Parks radio telescope otherwise known as the Dish and there it is Tada the Park 64 m Radio Telescope. Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to go uh near it today. but we have some interesting Hardware here. here's phased array feed uh for the square kilom array uh project and there it is.

It's designed to go there and we've got some real prototype Hardware Check it out. I'll uh show you the top there we go. there's our receiver pads just on a large PCB there I'm assuming or something like that anyway and uh, there's a little San checking it out and they got some mini circuits um receivers but looks of it something. There's a large huge board there some RS on there and a whole bunch of other Hardware there's some huge Hardware at the back there some RS stuff sorry through a glass uh case here, can't really see it, but uh, neat nonetheless.

And there's the uh if local oscillator. There we go. It's all modular board construction. Check it out.

So this is a there's the power filter. This is a real um prototype. Hardware Oh, now we're now we're serious business. RF modules look at that.

but uh, there's another mini circuits power splitter and uh yeah, that's some serious business I assume there's one of those per tile and uh, there some RF cans they're obviously part of. There we go. Yeah, sorry I'll try and take some photos of this and Link them in. but uh otherwise.

but that's really interesting. This is part of the square kilometer array project which we didn't win or we partially won really. Um, it actually went to Um South Africa I believe. So there you go there is the Uh a prototype receiver that's a real one.

It's not just a dummy mockup. they use this for Prototype testing on the Square Kilm array, so that's pretty awesome. So there you go. I'm about to, uh, check out the Parks Radio telescope.

Hopefully I'll get back here one day and do a shoot a proper technical blog. Catch you next time. Um.