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SETI Data is the web site of the Trillium Radio Observatory, a private back-yard observatory owned and operated by Scott Carter. The observatory is used for monitoring the Sun, Jupiter and more importantly searching for signs of intelligent life outside of our solar system!
Trillium Radio Observatory is nestled in a small village community of South-Western Ontario, Canada along the shores of Lake Erie. The fun started September 6, 2016 with the purchase of a 3 metre (10 foot) satellite dish; a fifty-dollar (CDN) investment that would soon become the reflector for an L-Band Radio Telescope. This research-grade Hydrogen-Line Radio Telescope provides a stable platform to perform my privatized SETI search.
In addition to L-Band observations, April 26, 2017 marked the date I completed construction of my Radio Jove receiver kit. This receiver is used for listening to Jupiter and the Sun which logs events using Radio SkyPipe software. Many hours have been spent exploring solar flares and Jupiter storms using this High Frequency (HF) radio telescope configuration.
I currently hold the volunteer position of Special Projects Coordinator for The SETI League and my station participates in SETI League's Project Argus. The SETI League was established in 1994 to help privatize the scientific Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
December 24, 2016 my L-Band Radio Telescope was brought on-line to search for radio signals from other solar systems.
Many revisions have been made to my Hydrogen-Line Radio Telescope. The telescope initially was brought on-line using the popular Icom R7000 analog receiver and was later switched to a Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform shortly afterwards. More recent updates include the upgrade to a SpectraCyber II radio telescope back-end system. The system is under continuous development and is currently undergoing a transformation from a meridian transit to an azimuth-elevation capable system to allow star tracking. It is running a Software Defined Radio receiver for SETI operations and the SpectraCyber II will be used for radio astronomy purposes.
A small group of SETI League volunteers is starting work on a new Open Source software project to provide a modern software package for Digital Signal Processing (DSP) used for SETI.