SDR-14 Used to copy Mars Phoenix Lander

[riese-k3djc at juno.com]

I saw that too there was about a 5 second view of 
the program running,, took me by surprise

Bob K3DJC 

 
On Wed, 28 May 2008 12:23:54 -0400 "fgentges at mindspring.com"
<fgentges at mindspring.com> writes:
> tacoistas,
> 
> An RFSpace SDR-14 was used on the Green Bank 100 meter Radio 
> Telescope 
> to copy the Mars Phoenix Lander during its descent.  The 
> transmission 
> copied was on 401.585825 MHz.  The software used was SpectraVue that 
> was 
> written by Moetronix and supplied by RFSpace.  Details at
> 
> http://www.rfspace.com/Blog/Entries/2008/5/25_Day_of_longboarding.html
> 
> This suggests that if you have an old large C band dish sitting 
> around, 
> you can attach a good RF front end and follow up with something like 
> the 
> SDR-14 or SDR-IQ you too can copy interesting stuff from space.
> 
> Frank K0BRA
> 
> 
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