{"id":118,"date":"2022-05-18T09:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T09:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2022-05-18T10:07:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T10:07:42","slug":"astron-training-i-on-rf-technology-and-rf-development-part-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/index.php\/astron-training-i-on-rf-technology-and-rf-development-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"ASTRON Training I on RF Technology and RF Development \u2013 part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The \u201cIntro to Antennas\u201d class was a success!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>The first activity of the STELLAR project took place in mid-February! The Introduction to Antennas course, originally planned to be held at ASTRON (in Dwingeloo, The Netherlands) for up to six people (faculty, researchers, and students) from the Institute of Astronomy (BAS) and the Technical University of Sofia, was transformed into an online course due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The course was attended by 57 participants from 13 research institutions!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The short course was held over Zoom, as three separate three-hour-long lectures. It was led by Dr. David Prinsloo of ASTRON \u2013 an expert in the design of antennas and antenna arrays for radio astronomy. Dr. Prinsloo is a researcher with the Smart Front-ends Group at the Innovations and Systems department of The Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy. His primary research interest is on antenna designs for both phased array and reflector-based radio telescopes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The course participants learned the ins and outs of fundamental antenna parameters, basic antenna types, as well as antenna arrays. As the final module of the course, the students participated in the design of a realistic antenna array.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full course recordings are available here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"513\" data-id=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/David-Prinsloo_small.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/David-Prinsloo_small.jpeg 384w, https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/David-Prinsloo_small-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><figcaption>Dr. David Prinsloo, ASTRON<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1150\" height=\"660\" data-id=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Intro_to_Antennas_students_2-1150x660-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Intro_to_Antennas_students_2-1150x660-1.png 1150w, https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Intro_to_Antennas_students_2-1150x660-1-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Intro_to_Antennas_students_2-1150x660-1-1024x588.png 1024w, https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Intro_to_Antennas_students_2-1150x660-1-768x441.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><figcaption>Students of the \u201cIntro to Antennas\u201d course<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1155\" height=\"660\" data-id=\"126\" src=\"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Intro_to_Antennas_students_1-1155x660-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Intro_to_Antennas_students_1-1155x660-1.png 1155w, https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Intro_to_Antennas_students_1-1155x660-1-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Intro_to_Antennas_students_1-1155x660-1-1024x585.png 1024w, https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Intro_to_Antennas_students_1-1155x660-1-768x439.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1155px) 100vw, 1155px\" \/><figcaption>Students of the \u201cIntro to Antennas\u201d course<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cIntro to Antennas\u201d class was a success! The first activity of the STELLAR project took place in mid-February! The Introduction to Antennas course, originally planned to be held at ASTRON (in Dwingeloo, The Netherlands) for up to six people (faculty, researchers, and students) from the Institute of Astronomy (BAS) and the Technical University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}