Assuming you're serious, what kind of equipment and knowledge would be needed?
According to the wiki page a team at UCL was planning to try, but the link to Roger Duthie's blog is dead. Any idea if they achieved anything?
Update:
Missing blog post content is at [1], courtesy of archive.org. Looks like they built some comms hardware. The full series of posts relating to Prospero is at [2]. Interesting read.
How much money do you think you need? A few private donations level or kickstarter level?
Consider just raising some prize money and then announcing a race for the first group to have confirmed contact with the satellite, and get out of the way?
Ok, consider yourself funded for 250 pounds, who else would like to chip in?
I'm really really rusty on VHF, do not have any required licenses and all my HAM contacts have dried up due to old age so that's pretty much all I think I can help with. The most I did in hardware terms in the last 6 months was to make an old Unitra grammophone work again, not quite in the right league :).
Mail me your IBAN please and I'll wire you the money, maybe do an official call-out for this project on your blog? That might get you some more help and/or funding. I really hope that you get this done, beware that there are a number of other satellites transmitting on the exact same frequency.
And a suitable radio set for 'stage 1' (find the thing), and then a suitable transmitter and some modem (probably doable using a SDR or even an audio card connected to the transceiver) to actually talk to it.
According to the wiki page a team at UCL was planning to try, but the link to Roger Duthie's blog is dead. Any idea if they achieved anything?
Update:
Missing blog post content is at [1], courtesy of archive.org. Looks like they built some comms hardware. The full series of posts relating to Prospero is at [2]. Interesting read.
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20121026003633/http://blogs.ucl.a...
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20121026003618/http://blogs.ucl.a...