General

The High Frequency Group is located in Bonn, rooms 1.20 to 1.22 and 3.18, 3.19.

Main tasks

Main tasks are development, service and maintenance of:

• cooled and uncooled receiver frontends up to 96 GHz for the Effelsberg 100m-telescope
• receiver calibration
• dewar design
• design of waveguide components
• if processing / polarimeter
• frequency supply
• low loss filters and broadband orthomode transducers
• backends
• data transfer lines
• computer aided measurement data processing

Current Projects

• 21cm 7 Beam Receiver
• Water Vapour Radiometer
• 3 frequency receiver box
• New Generation WVR
• broadband data transfer via optical cable
• new Phasecal

International Projects

• Digital Receiver
• Square Kilometer Array Design Study (SKADS)