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Dr. Rich Russel

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Dec 22, 2025, 11:22:23 AM (2 days ago) Dec 22
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Anyone have this article - send to Robert Meade.

Thanks!

Rich



Rich and Dennis,

I'm trying to find a copy of an article by Jim Abshier (index 647) in the Jan/Feb 1999 SARA Journal Archive pdf files, but I'm only seeing single pages like 65 and 7 from that month. It looks like the Mar/Apr journal entry is missing from that .zip file as well.

Does anyone have a copy of this article? I have the Jan/Feb 2000 one he wrote on Earth Rotation Aperture Synthesis, but would like to read the 1999 one where he resolves these 2 sources prior to interferometric imaging of the region in the Nov/Dec 2000 article.

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-Robert, KB3WFQ


James Abshier

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Dec 22, 2025, 1:03:04 PM (2 days ago) Dec 22
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Robert,

Perhaps you are referring to the article "Aperture Synthesis With A 400 MHz Interferometer" which appears in the Jan/Feb 1998 SARA Journal. I have written several aperture synthesis articles for the journal over the years. What in particular are you interested in?

Jim Abshier

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Dr. Rich Russel

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Robert Meade

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Dec 22, 2025, 8:02:38 PM (2 days ago) Dec 22
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I was looking for ALL of the articles listed in my screenshot from the .xlsx index. I have read the 1998 article you referred to, and I have a copy of all the others listed except the 1999 Jan/Feb one.

-Robert, KB3WFQ

James Abshier

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Dec 23, 2025, 1:13:01 PM (yesterday) Dec 23
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Robert,

The problem is that the Journal date in the index is wrong. The article that you are interested in was published in the Nov/Dec 1998 journal. But that's not the only problem with the article. When the article was published in 1998, the editor got the figures all messed up. Some were misplaced and others were missing. I don't recall anyone else noticing this (perhaps because no one else read it). I no longer have the Word Perfect word processor file of the article draft, but I do have a printout of the draft. I have scanned this printout into a pdf file and have attached it to this message.

The article describes an aperture synthesis experiment using a 400 MHz interferometer. Two different approaches were used to show separation of Cygnus A from Cygnus X. One involved Fourier transformation of visibility and the other involved just summing the interferograms. The result from the simple summing approach is what one might expect to get by combining signals from an array of antennas.

If you have any questions, I will try to answer them. It has been many years since I did the experiment. Also, the E-mail address given under the title is no longer used.

Jim Abshier

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Bruce Randall

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Hello Jim and All,

There are a few people including me that read Dec 1998 article.  I have refereed a few people to it who have asked me about Phase-Switched interferometers.  Article bits fit together better in the correct version you just shared.

Most, including me that have used interferometers have fixed antenna spacing and use them as a means to identify weak sources.  They are very effective at that!

Aperture Synthesis is another level of back yard space and math.  Maybe a bit of surveying skills as well.

    Bruce Randall    

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