Hi Jay P Hailey, hope you are having a nice day

>> Keep in mind it went silent not because it finally gave out but
>>because it's now too far away for us to hear its signal.
JPH>I think it's a combination of the signal growing weaker and the craft 
JPH>getting further away.

 Inverse square law. Signal strength is inversely proportionate to
the square of the distance.

 But pretty much all 3. The reactor is running down limiting the
amount of power for the transmitter, plus w/ the distance `ISL' is
doing  a number  on the received signal.

 -=> Yours sincerely, Paul Williams <=-

... "I'm gonna have to get me one of those Tagbunnies." - Graham G.
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