# Amatur radio ops, astonomers, tech heads, lend me your ears!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amatur-radio-ops-astonomers-tech-heads-lend-me-your-ears/399098>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 7, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amatur-radio-ops-astonomers-tech-heads-lend-me-your-ears/399098 "2007-04-07T13:58:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amatur-radio-ops-astonomers-tech-heads-lend-me-your-ears/399098/1 "2007-04-07T13:58:20Z")

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Well, not literally, but I’m looking for an audio logger. With the sunspots at a minimum, the HF bands are harder for me to work, so I’m turning my attention to radio astronomy. I want to start out monitoring solar and sky activity at 432 MHz, and need an audio logger. What I’m looking for specifically is a program that will monitor my radio’s autio output for several hours and display signal intensity vs. time. I’ve tried searching for one, but keep getting hits on .wav and .mp3 processing programs which I don’t want. Any suggestions in the shareware/freeware range?

Thanks,

Vlad/Igor

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**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amatur-radio-ops-astonomers-tech-heads-lend-me-your-ears/399098/2 "2007-04-09T15:32:07Z")

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Noodge. Surely there’s someone out there amongst the Teeming Millions with an answer.

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**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amatur-radio-ops-astonomers-tech-heads-lend-me-your-ears/399098/3 "2007-04-09T16:54:08Z")

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try here:  
[http://radiosky.com/raware.html](http://radiosky.com/raware.html)  
[http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp\_software.html](http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/yp_software.html)  
[http://astrotips.com/Downloads-index-req-viewsdownload-sid-26.phtml](http://astrotips.com/Downloads-index-req-viewsdownload-sid-26.phtml)

I Googled “radio astronomy software”

good luck