Jeff M. Hopper
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I need some help with radio astronomy and SETI questions. I'd like to have an adventure seed based upon the characters recieving a radio transmission from a world parsecs away, but I need more information. How strong must a radio signal be to reach across parsecs of space? How sensitive do the ship's sensors have to be to recieve it? How big does the parsec-range radio transmitter have to be to send a signal of this kind (both the dish and the electronics)?
Now if all this is within the range of plausibility, then would a branch of radio astronomy become more radio archaeology with students of history setting up sensitive PEMS and radio recievers in the suspected path of radio signals that may have been broadcast from centuries ago?
Now if all this is within the range of plausibility, then would a branch of radio astronomy become more radio archaeology with students of history setting up sensitive PEMS and radio recievers in the suspected path of radio signals that may have been broadcast from centuries ago?