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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 05:46:03 GMT, (Larry W4CSC) wrote:

Imagine transmitting on your marine VHF handitalkie and being heard by
powerful receivers on another planet. That's exactly what was taking
place as the spacecraft sent back audio tones to let us know how it
was doing. Just the communications engineering of it is simply
amazing.

Scenario:

Tense faces bent over the consoles, waiting for the first sign that
the lander is alive. As hope begins to fade we receive the
electrifying signal:

"Can you hear me now?"

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Glen "Wiley" Wilson usenet1 SPAMNIX at worldwidewiley dot com
To reply, lose the capitals and do the obvious.

Take a look at cpRepeater, my NMEA data integrator, repeater, and
logger at http://www.worldwidewiley.com/