[HN Gopher] HAM radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 o...
       ___________________________________________________________________
        
       HAM radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo
       telescope
        
       Author : ForHackernews
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2024-12-17 09:56 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.camras.nl)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.camras.nl)
        
       | LeoPanthera wrote:
       | A photo of the dish:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwingeloo_Radio_Observatory#/m...
        
       | pavel_lishin wrote:
       | > _While we have shown that we can use the Dwingeloo telescope to
       | receive the carrier signal from Voyager-1, we cannot use the
       | telescope to communicate with it. NASA uses dishes in the Deep-
       | Space Network (DSN) to communicate with Voyager 1. These dishes,
       | located around the globe in Goldstone, Canberra and Madrid, are
       | optimized for these higher frequencies and have a diameter of
       | 70m, much larger than the 25m Dwingeloo Telescope._
       | 
       | I wonder if this was included as a "please don't ask us if we're
       | capable of hacking it, we are _not_ " CYA.
        
       ___________________________________________________________________
       (page generated 2024-12-19 23:00 UTC)