Contents

I. Introduction

II. RT32 and RTH Instruments  
A. The OCRA-f Receiver  
B. A 100-metre Hevelius Radio Telescope  

III. Simulations  
A. Large Scale Structure Simulations  
B. Galaxy Clusters: Search and Properties  
C. SPH Interpolations  
D. Thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Effect  
E. CMB Simulations  
F. Field of View Projections  
G. Point Source Simulations  

IV. Comparison to Other Simulations, Observations, and Theoretical Predictions  
A. Halo Mass Function  
B. The M · σ_v Scaling Relation  
C. The M-T Scaling Relation  
D. The M-Y Scaling Relation  

V. Results  
A. Mock Maps  
B. Sensitivity Limits  
C. Predictions for Blind Galaxy Cluster Surveys  
D. Predictions for Blind Point Source Surveys  

VI. Discussion  

VII. Conclusions