{"id":1845,"date":"2020-10-21T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/10\/21\/listening-in-on-the-deep-space-network\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:18:18","slug":"listening-in-on-the-deep-space-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/10\/21\/listening-in-on-the-deep-space-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening in on the Deep Space Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DeepSpacceNetworkN2QG.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"488\" data-original-width=\"650\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DeepSpacceNetworkN2QG.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Not long ago we took the DISH satellite antenna off our roof. For a while I resisted pleas to put the big thing on the curb for pickup. I fantasized about using it for radio astronomy. In the end, I threw it away. I do have VHF\/UHF aspirations, but being able to use that dish just seemed to be something in my distant future (if ever!). <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>But check out what David N2QG is doing with his dishes: He is listening to very distant spacecraft normally picked up only by NASA&#8217;s Deep space network. Very cool. Truly inspirational. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Here are the links: <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prutchi.com\/2020\/10\/15\/recap-of-x-band-dsn-activities-and-plans-for-the-future\/\"><b>http:\/\/www.prutchi.com\/2020\/10\/15\/recap-of-x-band-dsn-activities-and-plans-for-the-future\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prutchi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DSN_Lessons-_Learned_N2QG.pdf\"><b>http:\/\/www.prutchi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DSN_Lessons-_Learned_N2QG.pdf<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago we took the DISH satellite antenna off our roof. For a while I resisted pleas to put the big thing on the curb for pickup. I fantasized about using it for radio astronomy. In the end, I threw it away. I do have VHF\/UHF aspirations, but being able to use that dish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/10\/21\/listening-in-on-the-deep-space-network\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Listening in on the Deep Space Network&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,30,82,32,147,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antennas","category-radio-astronomy","category-satellites","category-space-program","category-uhf","category-vhf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}