From: Larry Kayser (kayser_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: Fri Jan 03 2003 - 18:50:57 PST
Greetings All:
(1) Development Status: As of July 1999, the RAOOS software suite is
undergoing Beta testing by a small group of Project Argus volunteers. Final
release will be announced on The SETI League website
This project had a name change to PAOOS (Project Argus Observatory
Operating System .
Nothing more since 1999. The notes on this project speak to software I
would sure like to see and then to mine some of the resources for use in
another project I am working on. Has there been any progress???????
(2) Help Wanted: SETI Logging Software
This item again has items that I would find very valuable in other work,
has there been any progress in this item? Are there any members working on
this item?
My interests are in finding ways to dump 99% or more of the collected data
sets as quickly as possible, keeping only the data sets that have indicated
in real time or on secondary processing that there is a need for additional
processing and analysis to determine if there are events of interest. SETI
is not alone in seeking to find the needle in the large stack of hay.
I specifically need help in learning how to look in the FFT data and
evaluate the data for signals that meet any one or more of a number of
models or algorithms. I see references to some algorithms that I have
never heard of in fact I am unable to even find the generic language to
describe these algorithms or processes so that I might find more
information on them. I need help. I am neither a C programmer or a Linux
user - I do write commercial business software in VB6 and write PIC code as
needed.
Like so many others, I face a choice of either finding some help or
forgetting my research interests and going and learning all the schooling I
have missed so that I might be able then to generate the tools needed. For
me it is a choice of either being a tool user or becoming a tool developer
and forgetting the project that needs the tools. At ;my age, it is
unlikely I will have time to do both......
My projects are collecting 7x24 data sets of 1 minute intervals at 28 MHz
and 144 MHz data in a 20 KHz wide windows and seeking, by dual processing,
short duration events in the order of 20 milliseconds and / or long
duration events up to 55 seconds. The events may or may not have Doppler
shift on the signal. Progress on my projects from a few hours per day per
week to 7x24 is critical to achieving success.
If anyone on here can speak to the above items I would appreciate an email,
va3lk@rac.ca.
Thanks in advance for reading this item....
Larry
VA3LK
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