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 <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Steve Dunklee <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] '100 percent' chance for life on > newlyfoundplanet? > To: [email protected], [email protected], > [email protected] > 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 ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
