There was a presentation on building a distributed satellite ground station network at the Chaos Communication Congress held December 27-30 and the video is now available.
The AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle VHF/UHF Software Defined Radio gets a brief mention at 39:26 into the video.
The video kicks off with an appearance by Nick Farr then the presentation by Gregor Jehle (Hadez), Armin Bauer and Andreas Hornig gets underway.
Watch 28C3: Building a Distributed Satellite Ground Station Network – A Call To Arms (en)
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IOmwx7BL0A]
Hackers Plan Space Satellites http://www.uk.amsat.org/3172
Hackerspace Global Grid http://shackspace.de/wiki/doku.php?id=project:hgg
London Hackspace Project: Hoxton Space Centre http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Project:Hoxton_Space_Centre
London Hackspace work on HackSat1 http://www.uk.amsat.org/2482
The DIY Magic of Amateur Radio video http://www.uk.amsat.org/3158