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Re:Space Hackers Prepare to Reboot 35-Year-Old Spacecraft by jacquesm on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @10:39AM (#7772738)
It's in LEO so you'll need something like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Parabolic...

And a suitable radio set for 'stage 1' (find the thing), and then a suitable transmitter and some modem (probably doable using a SDR or even an audio card connected to the transceiver) to actually talk to it.

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Re:Space Hackers Prepare to Reboot 35-Year-Old Spacecraft by Serow225 on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @12:15PM (#7773372)
That looks like a smaller version of a Malibu tracking dish that I've used :)
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