{"id":3636,"date":"2011-10-13T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/can-we-put-a-sputnik-signal-back-in-space-for-300\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:49:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:49:03","slug":"can-we-put-a-sputnik-signal-back-in-space-for-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/can-we-put-a-sputnik-signal-back-in-space-for-300\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we put a Sputnik signal back in space for $300?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sprite.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662913651783823090\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 228px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/sprite.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">This article from Hack-a-Day caught my eye:<\/span><br \/><a style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\" href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2011\/10\/11\/send-a-satellite-into-space-for-300\/\">http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2011\/10\/11\/send-a-satellite-into-space-for-300\/<\/a><br \/><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">We just make the antenna a bit longer and put it on 20 MHz. Or for a shorter antenna, 40 MHz. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"FONT-WEIGHT: bold\">Bert and the fellows out at UVA are going to take care of the whole SETI thing (Jerry, NR5A, was in the lead on this &#8212; he started the SolderSmoke SETI-AT-HOME group). But we&#8217;ll need some additional volunteers to cover the Low Earth Orbit portion of the SolderSmoke Space Program. And of course we have to come up with the 300 bucks. <\/span><br \/><\/span><br \/>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article from Hack-a-Day caught my eye:http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2011\/10\/11\/send-a-satellite-into-space-for-300\/We just make the antenna a bit longer and put it on 20 MHz. Or for a shorter antenna, 40 MHz. Bert and the fellows out at UVA are going to take care of the whole SETI thing (Jerry, NR5A, was in the lead on this &#8212; he started &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/10\/13\/can-we-put-a-sputnik-signal-back-in-space-for-300\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can we put a Sputnik signal back in space for $300?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-satellites","category-seti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","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=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3638,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/3638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}