{"id":6274,"date":"2009-09-10T03:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/hubble-space-telescope-new-and-improved\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T20:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T10:38:49","slug":"hubble-space-telescope-new-and-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/hubble-space-telescope-new-and-improved\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubble Space Telescope:  New and Improved!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/hs-2009-25-a-large_web.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/hs-2009-25-a-large_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5379678342027859346\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I know, I know, it is not exactly ham radio, but look at it this way: electromagnetic waves from far, far away! REAL DX. And some very cool gear to receive the signals. And some recent repair and modification work&#8230; So you see, this is really not so far afield after all. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a big fan of the Hubble Space Telescope for a long time. When I was closer to the equator (in Santo Domingo) sitings of the HST were quite common. I&#8217;m glad to see that the recent repairs and mods worked out so well. Here is a really nice video on the new and improved Hubble: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/archive\/video_lightbox.php?year=2009&#038;id=25&#038;video_id=a\">Hubble Space Telescope Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, it is not exactly ham radio, but look at it this way: electromagnetic waves from far, far away! REAL DX. And some very cool gear to receive the signals. And some recent repair and modification work&#8230; So you see, this is really not so far afield after all. I&#8217;ve been a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/hubble-space-telescope-new-and-improved\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hubble Space Telescope:  New and Improved!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6274","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=6274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6276,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6274\/revisions\/6276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}