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New HamSat

tarball writes: "A new Amateur Radio Satellite launched about 30 minutes ago. This a very nice piece of work, for your use, free of charge, if you have an amateur radio license. All countries. No exceptions. See http://www.amsat.org/." Nifty.

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  1. Finally by Tayknight · · Score: 3

    For those who don't know, Phase3D has been worked on for _years_. It is a remakable machine, allowing communications on several bands (frequencies). It has a large footprint that will allow it to be seen from the ground twice a day for most of Europe and the U.S. Go to AMSAT.org and listen if you have a scanner. Most, but not all of the bands are digital, but the signal should be strong enough to pick up with a cheap scanner and a good antenna. Good to see it finally up, now I gotta dig out the old radios.

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