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> I assume the goal is to do something cooler than that.

Yes. Bounce the signal off the moon. The moon.



Hams bounce signals off of everything. Aircraft scatter, for example. Probably the coolest is using the ion trails of meteorites. When meteors punch through the atmosphere, they create ionized trails. These trails can reflect RF signals. Some of these happen to be optimal at low VFH frequencies, and hams make contacts using frequencies that ordinarily don't work beyond line of sight.


We've bounced 2.4GHz signals off Venus. Venus.


VHF frequencies, that is.


What if we tried more power?




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