This might be more achievable than it sounds: there is quite a bit of space content on Mastodon already. Seti have an official account along with several astronomers, observatories and astrophysicists. Nasa possibly used to have an official account that has gone inactive. I can’t see any astronauts there at the moment but that could easily change
I suggest we get our amateur radio guys to contact them
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Do we have amateur radio guys on the fediverse?
Yeah, someone let those nerds in.
We have a whole amateur radio instance https://lemmy.radio/c/amateur_radio
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Hi there. Can you talk to the astronauts for us lol?
You’d be better served learning how to do it yourself. It’s not hard and it’s a pretty cool skill to have (amateur radio).
It does sound interesting. Where do I start?
You can buy a cheap Chinese HT like a Quansheng UV-K6 for like $40. These have open firmware and there’s a bunch of custom options radio nerds have whipped up. Get the USB programming cable even if you’re not doing custom FW, makes programming frequencies and tweaking options much easier. You’ll also need a license and in the US, HamStudy.org has the exact questions from the test. There’s a ton of YouTube channels you can watch and books you can read for general purpose radio knowledge. Then it’s just a matter of getting a proper antenna and pointing it in the right place at the right time; there’s free resources online, paid apps, all that is out there and it’s just a matter of wanting to learn it. The actual hardware you need to get started is really cheap these days.
Thank you!
Given the demographics I’d be really surprised if we didn’t.
If you want to get used to the empty void of space, you could always just use friendica.
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