I am really happy to tell everyone of a terrific "SDR" experiment. HI.

Our colleagues in AMSAT-DL have been working towards demonstrating several of the pieces to allow for interplanetary communications in the event the Phase V mission to Mars comes to fruition.

A team consisting of many well known amateurs including Wolfgang Büscher (DL4YHF), Freddy de Guchteneire (ON6UG), Hermann Hagner (DK8CI), Michael Lengrüsser (DD5ER) , Karl Meinzer (DJ4ZC), James Miller (G3RUH), Max Münich (DJ1CR), Hartmut Paesler (DL1YDD), Achim Vollhardt (DH2VA).

The AMSAT-DL web page is here:

http://www.amsat-dl.org//index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1...

and the English press release is here:

http://www.amsat-dl.org/pic/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&...

In the photographs attached to these pages and press releases, one can see the SDR-IQ and Spectrum Lab. Congrats to RFSPACE (http://rfspace.com/Home.html) and Wolfgang DL4YHF (http://freenet-homepage.de/dl4yhf/spectra1.html).

I hope everyone joins in congratulating this team on their multiple year effort and outstanding achievement.

Bob McGwier N4HY