A news bulletin issued by the National Association for Amateur Radio (ARRL) describes an experiment spearheaded by Virginia Tech students led by PhD candidate Nathaniel Frissell to detect transmissions from Ham radio stations with the Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (ePOP) Radio Receiver Instrument (RRI) on-board the CASSIOPE satellite. A total of 23 stations, mostly in mid-western states, were detected during an ARRL Field Day on June 28. The reception of signals at 7 MHz but not 3.5 MHz was explained on the basis of ionospheric density levels measured by an ionsonde located at the Millstone Hill Observatory in Massachusetts. The operation of the ePOP instrument is managed by Dr. Gareth Perry at the University of Calgary. Read the ARRL bulletin at
http://www.arrl.org/news/researchers-decode-cassiope-satellite-field-day-fly-over-experiment-results
Pictured: logo of the CASSIOPE (CAScade Smallsat and IOnsopheric Explorer) mission, designed and built by the Canadian Space Agency.