Articles | Volume 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/ars-16-177-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/ars-16-177-2018
04 Sep 2018
 | 04 Sep 2018

Spectrum management and compatibility studies with Python

Benjamin Winkel and Axel Jessner

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Short summary
We developed the software pycraf. It allows to analyse the compatibility between applications and services that make use of radio waves, for example mobile communications providers. The radio wave spectrum is very limited, which makes it important that devices do not interfere with each other. One major application of pycraf is to calculate protection criteria for radio astronomy observatories, which are extremely sensitive to man-made radio emission, potentially rendering them blind.