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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. Drive it into a rock? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh wait. NASA's already both gotten the rover stuck on a "boulder" and sent a probe into a canyon.

    Maybe this vandal would use the rover to write "NASA is teh SuXoR" on the Martian surface.