{"id":2197,"date":"2021-02-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/20\/a-step-closer-to-the-elser-mathes-cup-ham-receives-signals-from-mars\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:53:32","slug":"a-step-closer-to-the-elser-mathes-cup-ham-receives-signals-from-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/20\/a-step-closer-to-the-elser-mathes-cup-ham-receives-signals-from-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"A Step Closer to the Elser-Mathes Cup? Ham Receives Signals from Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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That is the antenna that Scott Tilley VE7TIL used to receive signals from the Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-1 in orbit of Mars. In a recent SpaceWeather article<\/a>, Scott comments on the importance of SDR receivers in these deep space reception efforts. <\/b><\/div>\n

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https:\/\/spaceweatherarchive.com\/2021\/02\/16\/ham-radio-signals-from-mars\/<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n

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I’ve been watching the Elser-Mathes cup<\/a> for a long time. I dedicated my book “SolderSmoke — Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics” to my kids, Billy and Maria, noting that they were both possible future winners of this most prestigious award. Scott Tilley’s work has put us a step closer to an award ceremony for some intrepid radio amateur. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Here is a good article on the Elser-Mathes Cup: <\/b><\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/files\/file\/QST\/This%20Month%20in%20QST\/June2016\/Schoenfeld.pdf<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n

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Scott was in the news last year for finding a zombie satellite: <\/b><\/div>\n
https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2020\/04\/quarantine-search-for-zombie-satellite.html<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n
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That is the antenna that Scott Tilley VE7TIL used to receive signals from the Chinese spacecraft Tianwen-1 in orbit of Mars. In a recent SpaceWeather article, Scott comments on the importance of SDR receivers in these deep space reception efforts. https:\/\/spaceweatherarchive.com\/2021\/02\/16\/ham-radio-signals-from-mars\/ I’ve been watching the Elser-Mathes cup for a long time. I dedicated my book … Continue reading “A Step Closer to the Elser-Mathes Cup? Ham Receives Signals from Mars”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,190,22,340,308,40,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antennas","category-canada","category-china","category-elser-mathes-cup","category-mars","category-sdr","category-space-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","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=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2200,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/2200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}