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Re:New Horizons enters safe mode 10 days before Pluto flyby by bigiain on Sunday July 05, 2015 @09:28PM (#9836086)
Sadly, I'm guessing a scavenged satellite tv dish and a $12 SDR with a home built antenna is not going to let me listen in...

I wonder just how badly TCP would cope with 32million millisecond round trip ping times?

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Re:New Horizons enters safe mode 10 days before Pluto flyby by CamperBob2 on Sunday July 05, 2015 @10:41PM (#9836396)
You could eavesdrop on some of the probes with a setup like that, just not anything as far out as New Horizons. Google "amateur DSN" for more.
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