Radio JOVE Conference Schedule

The Radio JOVE Team, together with the Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA), is pleased to announce a joint meeting this summer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, WV. This meeting will take place from Sunday June 29 through the morning of Friday July 4, 2014. The SARA part of the meeting will start Sunday with an introduction to Radio Astronomy at the Science Center classroom,followed by learning to operate the forty foot radio telescope (1,420 MHz - 21 cm). Presentations by SARA members and guests will begiven on Monday and Tuesday. A High Tech tour of the NRAO facility will be conducted on Tuesday 1 July. The JOVE meeting will occurWednesday and Thursday with talks ranging from entry level descriptions of Jove hardware and software to more advanced measurementtechniques and science of the Jovian emission sources.

Attendees may register for either the SARA segment or the JOVE segment of the meeting, or both. Registration details may be found on the SARA website http://radio-astronomy.org/meetings. Contact Melinda or Bill Lord (ap_guardian@yahoo.com) if you have questions about the logistics.

2014 Radio JOVE Conference Presentation Abstracts

A tentative agenda for the Radio Jove portion of the meeting is given below. Contact Jim Thieman (jt1203@aol.com) if youhave questions about the Radio Jove meeting agenda.

Tentative Radio Jove Meeting Schedule

Wednesday July 2, 2014 --- Radio Jove Hardware and Software Basics + Advanced Systems

Time	Speaker	Topic
7:45 am	Breakfast	Breakfast in the NRAO Cafeteria
8:45 am	J. Thieman	Welcome and Radio Jove Meeting Overview
9:15 am	R. Flagg, W. Greenman	Radio Jove Hardware – Receiver and Antenna
9:45 am	J. Sky	Radio-Skypipe 101
10:15 am	R. Flagg	Calibration
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	RJ Team	Archiving Data
11:00 am	C. Higgins	Introduction to Jupiter Science
11:30 am	J. Sky	Radio Jupiter Pro (RJP) Software
12:15 pm	Lunch	Lunch in the NRAO Cafeteria
1:30 pm	R. Flagg	Introduction to Advanced Measurements Systems
2:15 pm	R. Flagg, D. Typinski, J. Sky	Basic Spectrograph Hardware and Software
2:45 pm	D. Typinski	The Fast Fourier Transform (Tutorial)
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	R. Flagg, D. Typinski	The Tunable, Wideband Receiver (TWB)
4:00 pm	D. Typinski	Polarization, Beam Steering, Dual Polarization Spectrograph
4:30 pm	R. Flagg	Spectrograph User’s Group
5:00 pm	Dinner	Dinner in the NRAO Cafeteria
6:30 pm	All	Hands-On Radio Astronomy on the Lawn
7:30 pm	All	Drake Lounge Open for Discussions and Social

Thursday July 3, 2014 --- Science and Radio Jove Future

Time	Speaker	Topic
7:45 am	Breakfast	Breakfast in the NRAO Cafeteria
9:00 am	J. Thieman, C. Higgins	Advanced Jupiter Science Summary
9:30 am	K. Imai, T. Ohno	Status of the Agawa Radio Observatory, Kochi, JAPAN
10:00 am	J. Brown	Jupiter Narrow Band (N)-Events
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	A. Mount	Precision Time by GPS
11:15 am	C. Higgins	The Long Wavelength Array (LWA) – Jupiter Results
11:45 am	F. Reyes	Low Frequency Observations of the SL-9 Impact with Jupiter
12:15 pm	Lunch	Lunch in the NRAO Cafeteria
1:30 pm	S. Kurtz	Team Mexico and Radio Jove
2:00 pm	RJ Team (tentative)	Large Groups using Radio Jove for Education (tentative)
2:30 pm	RJ Team	Solar Science
3:00 pm	Break
3:45 pm	RJ Team	The Juno Mission 2015-2017 and Radio Jove Observing
4:15 pm	J. Thieman + RJ Team	The Future of Radio Jove
5:15 pm	Dinner	Dinner in the NRAO Cafeteria
6:30 pm	All	Hands-On Radio Astronomy on the Lawn
7:30 pm	All	Drake Lounge Open for Discussions and Social

Friday 7-04-14 --- Departure

Time

Speaker

Topic

7:45 am

Continental Breakfast

Continental Breakfast in the Drake Lounge

[NRAO Cafeteria is closed for the holiday]

9:00 am

Departure

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