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ESA Offering Prizes For First Radio Reception From Satellite (livejournal.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the can-you-hear-me-Major-Tom dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The European Space Agency education office set up a contest to receive the radio signals from their new Cubesat satellites: AAUSAT4, E-st@r-II or OUFTI-1. Prizes will be rewarded to those who receive the first signal (audio or waterfall) from TLM, packet or ham radio transponders. Even if you're not the first, any valid submission will be rewarded with a nice QSL card from ESA, reports one space site.

Arianespace's Soyuz is scheduled for liftoff on April 24 with a multi-mission satellite payload. Designated Flight VS14 in Arianespace's launcher family numbering system, the medium-lift Soyuz carries a mixed payload of the Sentinel-1B C-band radar observation platform, a trio of "Fly Your Satellite!" technology demonstrator CubeSats, and the Microscope scientific satellite.

9 comments

  1. Well! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I certainly don't know about any of that.... but I can tell you that Jesus is tired of your shit, and so am I. Good day.

    1. Re:Well! by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      How do you think your opinion would influence that? Or that of your gardener?

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  2. Satnogs by braindrainbahrain · · Score: 2

    Oh No! Will I be able to build my Satnog Ground Station in time?

  3. Conspiracy by Luthair · · Score: 4, Funny

    to make me take off my tinfoil hat to listen.

  4. Very good for satellite by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Http://wififpt.net

  5. GQRX... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    is already installed and working on my Linux box. All I need is a dish or a homemade cantenna, and it's ready to find that little sucker.

    1. Re:GQRX... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Dish or cantenna" for 144/432 MHz are ridiculously big. You'll need an Yagi.

  6. How did this get out of firehose? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    With a whopping 8 (including this) posts in well over 24 hours, this got out of firehose how? Did really nothing happen yesterday?

  7. Did Telstar do This When Launched? by tmjva · · Score: 1

    I think I'll play "Telstar" by The Ventures now.

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