Radio amateurs bounce signal off of Venus

[vk6hgr]

https://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/ ... /index.php

Fascinating stuff!

[Bonez]

That is awesome stuff indeed. Do you know how much power they used in the transmission?

I clicked the link on the video, but being in German it was a bit hard to figure it out.
I heard something about 40 seconds in that said "experement vunt tawsand vatt"

but not sure how many thousand watts they were actually talking about

[meg]

I got some more info on the AMSAT VK mailing list -

There is an English press release at
http://www.amsat-dl.org/pic/gallery2/ma ... temId=7561

and there's a little discussion on the AMSAT VK group
http://au.groups.yahoo.com/group/amsatvk/

Cheers
Meg

[robbage]

I don't know if I read that correctly, but didn't the signal originate from a Mars probe?

[meg]

I don't know if I read that correctly, but didn't the signal originate from a Mars probe?

Nah, I think that's just another project - from the press release

From ground mission control station in Bochum (located in the observatory IUZ Sternwarte) radio frequency signals were sent to Venus. After nearly 100 million kilometres of track and approximately five minute’s term they came back again as echoes from Venus surface and were received in Bochum.

[Blinky]

I heard something about 40 seconds in that said "experement vunt tawsand vatt"

The narrator mentioned "ein experiment mit funf Tausand watt" = an experiment with 5000 watt.

and yes I know there should have been an umlaut over the u but this keyboard would not do it...and I could have written it ue but that just looked too wierd and the w was pronouced as a v so you were right there. [/end german grammar lesson]

Not a bad amplifier for 2.4GHz =D>