"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
While digging around for information on how to observe radio echos from meteors, I stumbled across this fascinating link about using reflections from the NAVSPASUR system (a government system to find and track satellites in orbit) using equipment that isn’t beyond the capacity of amateurs to create. Very, very cool.
NAVSPASUR Title Page
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