[meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newlyfoundplanet?

From: ted brattstrom <volcanoted_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:47:52 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <286427.61243.qm_at_web55705.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Aloha

Alas, WCX was operating in the "AM" band - a bit above 500kHz - and these signals don't do a very good job at getting out of the ionosphere.

http://www.michiguide.com/history/am.html

To get ETs attention, you have to wait until VHF signals start to be emitted from planet earth - and fairly high power at that... As was noted in the book Contact (Sagan) - that gets us into the 1930s... The Berlin Olympics and the Coronation of King George VI - these transmitters were operating around 50MHz, and those signals could make it through the ionosphere.... So - the 1936 timeframe is the crucial one for our radio envelope expansion. (after that we start getting noisier!!! Military radars, TV programs, and all)


moving on:

Having read Part 97 of the FCC regulations (the part that regulates Amateur Radio) - I don't see any part that prohibits me from grabbing a 300+ meter dish, a 1500 watt amplifier, and beaming a signal to Space using any acceptable coding system approved for use in the amateur bands. I'd have to use appropriate frequencies in the Amateur Radio Spectrum & I'd have to identify myself using my callsign (NH6YK) in English / International Phonetics / or International Morse Code / (or in the medium (RTTY/FSTV/SSTV etc) being used)

So - 1296MHz at 1500W to the star of your choice??? seems legal to me - Unless - of course - the entities of the star/planet in question have registered (I think it's the ITU) that amateur radio communications are prohibited between amateurs of our country and their "people/amateurs"

(since we are not transmitting to an Earth satellite - it is not subject to the sub-rules for the Amateur Satellite Service :-) :-) )


Cheers - 73 and aloha - ted - nh6yk



--- On Thu, 10/7/10, Steve Dunklee <steve.dunklee at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Steve Dunklee <steve.dunklee at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on newlyfoundplanet?
> To: sterling_k_webb at sbcglobal.net, geozay at aol.com, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Thursday, October 7, 2010, 6:13 AM
> you are forgetting the first
> commercial radio stations. WJR which was WCX began
> broadcasting in 1922 . Thats about 88 light years of radio
> signals from Detroit. I wonder what they would think of us
> hearing music and shows like "the lone ranger" and "flash
> gordon" . If there is anyone out there. Cheers Steve
>
> On Wed Oct 6th, 2010 6:11 PM EDT Sterling K. Webb wrote:
>
> >We have already sent them "I Love Lucy," just
> >by broadcasting it from October 15, 1951 to
> >May 6, 1957. In the Fifties, the radio brightness
> >of the Earth was about 700 times greater than
> >our Sun's radio brightness. A bright radio source
> >in orbit about a G-class star is like firing up a
> >beacon for everyone within 50 lightyears, one
> >that screams "Yoo-Hoo!"

--snip--

> >Sterling K. Webb



      
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