Depending on your goals, you can use a TV dish for radio astronomy work. Probably none of these will pick up what the Chinese can hear with their new 500 meter installation.

The first trial of an Australian-developed technology has detected mysterious objects by sifting through signals from space like sand on a beach. Astronomers and engineers at CSIRO, Australia's ...

SHANGHAI -- Two radio telescopes with 40-meter-diameter antennas, one located in Northeast and the other in Southwest China, were put into use on Friday. These telescopes will aid in exploring ...