I'd contact the Arecibo people and get it scheduled as an experiment. Heck,
they radar-mapped the moon at 430 mhz.
(hi Doug)


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"Doug Smith W9WI" <w9wi@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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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.
-- 
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN  EM66
http://www.w9wi.com