Phase 1 of the project as agreed on Friday 19th April 2002 is to provide enough instruments by September 2002, to record a band 50MHz wide, split into bands of 5MHz, and sampled at quadrature baseband at a rate of 5MSPS. This will require 10 Sampler Boards, 10 LED Display Boards, 10 Interface Boards, 10 LO modules, and three backplane boards mounted into three chassis. In addition, there will be 20 passband filters, and 40 low-pass filters.

Phase 2 of the project will increase this capacity by a further six sets of sampler, interface, and LO modules. This will allow us to observe a band up to 80MHz.

Phase 2 of the project will depend on the success or otherwise of Phase 1. Also we are constantly looking at the available technology, in particular, ways of getting data onto the PCI bus. At the moment we are using Adlink boards (PCI-7300A) which use 16-bit, 33MHz technology. We are waiting for affordable 32-bit 66MHz technology, which will revolutionise our data capture methods.