The history of early low frequency radio astronomy in Australia. 8: Grote Reber and the 'Square Kilometre Array' near Bothwell, Tasmania, in the 1960s and 1970s (2017)
George, Martin (Author)
Orchiston, Wayne (Author)
Wielebinski, Richard (Author)
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Volume: 20
Issue: 2
Pages: 195-210
In the 1960s, Grote Reber (1911−2002) established and used an antenna array near Bothwell in Tasmania. Working independently, he produced a radio map of the southern sky at a frequency of 2.085 MHz (a wavelength of 144 metres). Encouraged by this success, he modified the array in the 1970s to work at 1.155 MHz, but this second endeavour failed to produce any usable results.
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