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USNA "Budget" Satellite Launched and Functioning

Posted by timothy on from the hey-bob-where's-my-metal-tape-measure dept.

Arpad Korossy writes: "Hey, you ran a story on this earlier, and some people expressed doubt whether a sattelite made for a tenth of the usual cost using mostly components from Radio Shack would work; well, it has. The best line in the whole article has to be 'Instead of a $50,000 antenna system, the group used a metal tape measure.""

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  1. Is Bin Laden a radio ham? by FrankBough · · Score: 0, Troll

    The first message relayed through the satellite came several hours later from an amateur radio user in Qatar in the Middle East.

    The text was 'Mail the merchandise now'.

    I bet the CIA are loving that.