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Ham Hears Mars Orbiter 45 Million Miles From Earth

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-quite-a-commute dept.

Richard L. James writes "As reported on the Mars-net email list Flight Refuelling Amateur Radio Society's resident satcom + WLAN guru Paul J. Marsh (M0EYT) has managed to detect and receive NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on X band at a staggering range of 45 million miles from Earth using a home made receiver setup and a RFspace SDR-14 software radio."

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  1. Are you insane? by 955301 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The guy, a human being with clothes and bad breath and pimples as a kid and all of those things that level the playing field for all of us, is communicating with something 45 million miles away!

    Even the most boring, predictable, well-funded case of this occurring should be celebrated with what is left of the adverturer in you.

    "So what". Puh! Why exactly are you at Slashdot then?

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