This lecture introduces the basics of single dish radio astronomy, covering topics such as dish optics, beam patterns, gain and resolution of parabolic dishes, receivers, analogue and digital backends, and polarimeters.
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Explores homodyne receivers, covering DC offset, channel selection, and offset cancellation, along with challenges like even-order distortion and LO leakage.