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		dylan604 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1... What's been decommissioned for 20 years now? I'm not really sure where you get your information from, but it's clearly not correct. Decommissioned Announced November 19, 2020 Collapsed December 1, 2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_Telescope

cge 7 months ago [–]

They were referring to Dwingeloo [1] in the Netherlands, the telescope used in this article, not Arecibo. It stopped officially operating as a radio telescope in 2000, and has since been used for a variety of astronomy and amateur radio projects.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwingeloo_Radio_Observatory

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