Zombie satellite

[Alex Eisenhut]

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/31/abandoned-in-space-in-1967-a-us-satellite-has-started-transmitting-again/

Any hams here can get a signal from this thing?

[TheSteve]

Sounds a bit like OSCAR 7 - the batteries finally degrade to an open instead of a short.

[Ampera]

Yea, I have to say even though I am not a HAM or SW radio operator (I would LOVE to be one though, but as with everything money and bureaucracy hesitates me, but probably some day) I had fun looking into the info available to this.

I just love looking into old weird stuff that does something for some reason. Even very very VERY little things like there being a broken "Press Start Button" icon in the original sonic 1 that can only be glitched into
existence by using a Japanese console and executing a specific set of button presses in the demo sequence to have a secret hidden credits behind a certain title splash that for some unknown reason makes it appear. Strange, but the screen is sorta barren once you know it exists.

It's just some strange sense of love for this weird stuff that randomly happens, I can't explain it.


Thanks for bringing this to my attention, this is pretty cool.

[cvanc]

Very cool story; thank you for posting.

[PA0PBZ]

If you can't receive it yourself, this is second to best: