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Open-source communications by bouncing signals off the Moon

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63•arnon•4d ago•6 comments
Open in hackernews

Open-source communications by bouncing signals off the Moon

https://open.space/
36•fortran77•6d ago

Comments

gus_massa•5d ago
I started reading thinking it was impossible but it has been done with other devices https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Ear...
cactacea•1h ago
Not impossible, just extremely difficult. I'm a ham and getting some contacts over moonbounce is a personal goal of mine. Historically this kind of thing has required some pretty large antenna arrays and very high power though:

https://hamradio.engineering/eme-moonbounce-bouncing-signals...

http://www.g4ztr.co.uk/app/download/13284489/RaCcom_Feb14+EM...

http://www.g4ztr.co.uk/app/download/13300096/Radcom_Mar144+E...

dbcurtis•44m ago
Isn't there a moon bounce mode in WSJT (or one of those digital modes) that provides enough coding gain that 100W and a single large Yagi is enough? I seem to recall hearing something like that... but, yeah, on CW a monster antenna and the legal limit of 1500W seems to be the median system.

A long time ago I started collecting parts for a 432MHz EME system. Life got in the way and I never built it out. Good luck with your endeavor!

cactacea•1h ago
Expected array gain: ~39.3 dBi / EIRP: ~63.1 dBW

Tx power: 1 W per antenna

Yeah... so free space path loss at legal frequencies for hams this thing can transmit on is ~283dB. Neat idea but consider me skeptical. Having said that I can see some interesting applications for this kind of gear, EME seems overly optimistic though.

jacquesm•1h ago
A few hundred Watt at a minimum would be my first guess.
cactacea•1h ago
Yeah that is what is used for moonbounce today (if not full legal power - 1500W for US amateurs) but these little panels won't put out anything remotely close to that. Hence my skepticism.
dbcurtis•34m ago
At those power levels they would have to use some kind of highly error-corrected modulation and coding scheme to provide enough coding gain to overcome the path loss. I agree they are pretty optimistic, but until they detail their modulation scheme, it's hard to tell.

A few years ago I was experimenting with 900 MHz LoRa for a work project -- we had need to communicate a very small data payload from inside elevator cabs, with forgiving latency requirements. So we took a LoRa board to a hotel building 2 city blocks away from our lab and cranked the coding gain up to the max, which gave us about a 1 byte payload every second. Perfectly sufficient for our application. Astoundingly, we had great copy in our lab even when the doors of the elevator cab were closed, inside a building 2 blocks away. I can't remember the power level, 500mW I think, but I may be wrong.

firesteelrain•1m ago
People use WSJTX software and Q65 mode
drmpeg•30m ago
It's theoretically possible.

63.1 dbW = 93.1 dBm (240 watts + 39.3 dB gain)

path loss at 5760 MHz = 283.2 dB (at perigee)

RX gain = 39.3 dB

93.1 - 283.2 + 39.3 = -150.8 dBm

Noise floor at 1.2 dB noise figure and 500 Hz bandwidth = -151.9 dBm

SNR = +1.1 dB (easily detectable by ear with CW).

Neywiny•20m ago
It's 1 watt per antenna. They have 240, or 53.8 dbm. So assuming 39.3 and your 283 (which seems to be around what I'm seeing online) that's -283+(39.3*2)+53.8=-150.6 dbm receive power. That should be plenty.
amelius•1h ago
Latency?
_bernd•1h ago
1 sec up and 1 sec down... more or less. Speed of light and distance to the moon, two times.... roughly.
firesteelrain•6m ago
KA1GT recently found a $100 “solar cooker” dish on AliExpress. Also available on Amazon. It was tested back in August.

Announced on the EME Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19zLsGZiE7/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Output power was 500w