{"id":20994,"date":"2006-08-12T09:55:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-12T15:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2006\/08\/12\/all-hail-the-dog-star"},"modified":"2006-08-12T10:42:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-12T16:42:23","slug":"all-hail-the-dog-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/archives\/2006\/08\/12\/all-hail-the-dog-star","title":{"rendered":"All hail the dog star."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/entries\/images\/2006\/Radiosat3.png\" title=\"Radiosat 3, during its 16-hour pass over North America\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:1em;\" \/> Yes, it&#8217;s true: <a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/erinmak\/diary\/2006\/08\/12\/sirius-rocks\/\">we love the Sirius radio<\/a> that came with our new Mazda3.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/dsandler.org\/erinmak\/diary\/2006\/08\/09\/resolution\/\">Photo essay<\/a> forthcoming.)  The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sirius_Satellite_Radio\">Wikipedia page for Sirius<\/a> offers some geeky details (for those into that sort of thing); for example, there are terrestrial repeaters in major cities to improve reception for receivers that cannot hear any of Radiosat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heavens-above.com\/orbitdisplay.asp?satid=26390\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heavens-above.com\/orbitdisplay.asp?satid=26483\">2<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heavens-above.com\/orbitdisplay.asp?satid=26626\">3<\/a>.  Other places to poke around: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siriusbackstage.com\/\">SIRIUS Backstage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siriusfannetwork.com\/\">SIRIUS Fan Network<\/a>, DogstarRadio&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogstarradio.com\/sirius_map.php\">satellite orbit and terrestrial repeater map<\/a>, more info on the SIRIUS constellation from <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/proton\/sirius3\/001130sirius.html\">Spaceflight Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s true: we love the Sirius radio that came with our new Mazda3. (Photo essay forthcoming.) The Wikipedia page for Sirius offers some geeky details (for those into that sort of thing); for example, there are terrestrial repeaters in major cities to improve reception for receivers that cannot hear any of Radiosat 1, 2, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsandler.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}