October 5, 2024

This Week in Amateur Radio

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Via the ARRL: AMSAT-DL Operators Track Mars Probes

Members of Germany’s AMSAT organization, AMSAT-DL, in cooperation with the Sternwarte Bochum Institute in Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, have been using the institute’s 20-meter (65.6-foot) diameter dish antenna to listen directly to signals from probes in Mars orbit.

Signals have been copied from the Chinese Tianwen-1 and the Hope Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) spacecraft now orbiting Mars …

Read more – via American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources http://www.arrl.org/news/view/amsat-dl-operators-track-mars-probes