10 years of Radio Jove
It’s been over 10 years actually (2011 April) since we assembled out RadioJove radio receiver, built the dual dipole antenna, and have been recording both Jupiter and Solar radio events.
There is a support group for RadioJove users, which holds regular teleconferences. Last week (Wednesday 2021 Sept 29) they held the first zoom videoconference, which we attended.
“The reason for the odd time is that there is a predicted Io-A Jupiter radio emission event beginning at this time, and we will have live-streamed data to show. We hope to detect some Jupiter radio emissions during our call and discuss the sights and sounds of these emissions. This is a great opportunity to compare your radio observatory data with other observers. ”
And the call NAILED IT! We were able to share our realtime data and have others on the call confirm that it was in fact a Jupiter Io-A Radio event!
We routinely pick up much more powerful Solar radio events, like X class flares, M class flares and even C class flares on occasion.
This was our first confirmed Jupiter radio event detection!
Comments from the group showed our system to have a very low background noise site and that the signal was quite distinct. We attempted to record audio of the event but due to technical issues, that did not work. Next time it will!
The event started on UTC 2021 Sept 30 at 01:42 and ended approx 02:05. Our automatic graph production makes 30 minute graphs on the hour and half hour so it was split between two graphs.
01:30-02:00
and
02:00-02:30
This is hard to make out so we loaded the original data back into the RadioSkypipe software, move the scales around and got this image:
