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Originally Posted by Malewithatail
I was involved with the IARS radio club and the Dapto moonbounce project at 432 megs, using a dish provided by the Wollongong university. That would have bee at least 50 years ago !
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The efforts using the Arecibo dish on 70cm are legendary also - all before my time unfortunately. It's amazing to think that it was only first successfully done in 1946 by some American DARPA types...
I've made successful contacts using ~1W of power - speaks to how far our electronics and DSP software has come. I always marvelled at how we received signals from Voyager II way way below the noise floor at parks, and just integrated enough signals to pull it out - now we do the same thing at home.