On the first half of 1997, a congregation of efforts permitted the reborn
of RSM, a radio spectrograph dedicated to monitor solar bursts. Located
at a remote and quite radio site, Espiunca (41.00 N, 8.23 W), this single
dish radiotelescope sweeps the 150-650 MHz band. Since June 97, a daily
routine points the radio telescope to the sun, whose flux is monitored
during an eight hours interval, sweeping 500 channels, 18 times per second.
Full instrument exploration (including antenna pointing, data acquisition
and archiving) was automated, cutting human intervention to once a week
media mass storage exchange. A telephone link allows remote supervision
of site computer. Back at Astronomical Observatory, data tapes are
overlooked to identify and extract the most significant events.
Our five months long archive of solar radio bursts shows a good coverage of solar activity, as is evidenced by comparisons with other data banks (i.e. Space Environment Center and AIP in Potsdam). Our difficulty to record the faintest events (those of intensity 1) is a consequence of the high sampling rate selected. The experience acquired in these five months operation has emphasized crucial improvements to be implemented as soon as possible.