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Doesn't sound like you're out of your depth. It's been done with a worse receiver - https://www.rtl-sdr.com/detecting-pulsars-rotating-neutron-stars-with-an-rt

• _Microft 6y ago
  Well, I am a physicist, so this wasn't purely techno-babble but since I never had anything to do with astronomy or radio-observations a caveat seemed warranted. Thanks for the link btw!
• hanslub42 6y ago
  Worse receiver, but better antenna: From the linked article: "... With their system [...] they were able to estimate that the minimum dish aperture required to observe the Vela pulsar would be 6m, noting that the Vela pulsar is probably the strongest pulsar ever detected" As a kid, I built a crystal radio. There it was the same: with a very long wire, even such a simple radio could receive far-away stations