Re: [Fwd: Question to list]

Phil Rogers (progers@mindspring.com)
Fri, 21 May 1999 22:06:45 -0400

jstone@dialnet.net wrote:

>It was 189,578 at 3300.9 Hz at 90.6 seconds ... The previous high I had had was
>1200 or so ... Considering the extreme strength of this one I has to be something
>like an airplane ... I wonder if the airspace around Aricebo is restricted
>airspace ... I bet is is ... because sometimes they transmit a huge signal ....

Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but as a radio telescope, Aricebo
should be passive and transmit no signal at all. It is more akin to a telemetry
receiver for non-manmade signals rather than a radar which does transmit
extremely high peak power signals of very limited duty cycle.

Phil Rogers
progers@mindspring.com
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