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by devwastaken 794 days ago
Is it possible to put an antenna on a roof and capture this data?
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Some of it, though no single location is always able to point in the right direction.

The signal is also really weak coming from 30x the distance to geostationary orbit and setup for the DSN, so you need a large parabolic antenna.

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/space-communications-...