| Subject: Re: Has anoyone attempted to 'moonbounce' or EME ATSC UHF band TV signals, in the UHF band allocation? |
| From: Doug Smith W9WI |
| Date: 30/09/2005, 06:52 |
| Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti,sci.astro.seti,sci.engr.television.advanced,sci.engr.television.broadcast |
Max Power wrote:
Has anyone attempted to 'moonbounce' or EME ATSC UHF band TV signals, in the
UHF band allocation?
I don't know of anyone who's done it with ATSC signals.
A TV DXer in Australia has DXd analog carriers via moonbounce.
http://www.geocities.com/toddemslie/moonbounce_DXTV.html
http://www.geocities.com/toddemslie/UHF-EME-TVDX.html
What such a test could accomplish:
1. Find out if ASTC error correction can survive EME, enough that is to get
a station ID.
2. Find out what 'emergency utility' such a communication system might
possess.
3. As a propagation experiment.
4. As a test of a radio astronomy network.
The signals do not appear to be strong enough to even deliver sync buzz,
let alone decodable data. A larger antenna would help but with these
wide signals I doubt one would reach decodability.