Wow: Triggering the protection system a second time turned off the regular radio: "While the S-band uses less power, Voyager 1 had not used it to communicate w

Wow: Triggering the protection system a second time turned off the regular radio: "While the S-band uses less power, Voyager 1 had not used it to communicate with Earth since 1981. It uses a different frequency than the X-band transmitters signal is significantly fainter. The flight team was not certain the S-band could be detected at Earth due to the spacecraft’s distance, but engineers with the Deep Space Network were able to find it." Heros, both those who made the S-band radio and those who managed to retrieve the signal.