Re:Private company landing on the moon today
by tcmart14 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:12PM
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I don't know specifically about wifi but, check out EME bounces. With a hand held ham radio on the 6M band and a directional antenna made from like $6 of supplies from your local hardware store, you can have a radio that can bounce a signal off the moon and talk to someone on the other side of the earth.
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Re:Private company landing on the moon today
by op00to on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:19PM
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Itβs more like the 2m and 70cm bands, and really big expensive antennas. You can bounce signals off of meteor trails with a cheap antenna and 6m radios, though!
Re:Private company landing on the moon today
by tcmart14 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:31PM
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Been out of it awhile so i was thinking 6m, mighta gotten mixed with the scatter-e propagation. But I knew a guy down in San Diego who used to do EME bounces with cheap directional antennas he homemade. But that guy was also an EE at Qualcomm there.
But that was 6 years ago and since I've moved up to Oregon, I havnt gotten to do much ham stuff because I could never hit the repeaters around here. Maybe they are no longer up, maybe its all the hills and volcanic rock?
Re:Private company landing on the moon today
by op00to on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:41PM
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You can make it work with normal human antennas, as long as the other person has the big ones! I could never contact someone with the same antenna and radio as me via the MOON, but I can on certain days be heard by those big dogs!
Meteor scatter is pretty fun though!