>>> Part 2 of 2...
 
Moonbounce, and point-to-point communication.  The 6 Meter, (50-54 MHz),
band, is borderline: it is generally local, however when conditions are
right, it can be used for worldwide contacts.
 
(You are reading a message from an Extra-class Ham - the highest Ham
license issued by the FCC - a level that fewer than 10% of all Hams ever
attain, and while I, like you, can only speculate about UFOs and ETs, but
when I speak of Ham Radio, (or electronic communications in general, since
I earned a Radiotelephone 1st class license over 30 years ago, and have
worked for several AM, FM and TV stations, including as Chief Engineer of
one), I know whereas I speak!)
 
   :-}
 
 JS> Just a simple, "Hello, out there!" might take a thousand years to get
 JS> any kind of reply. ...And that is about all we dare to hope for.
 
...Or less than 5 years if it's one of our "neighbors."
 
 JS> How far into space can a radio telescope transmit to a similar setup
 JS> on a distant alien world? Could a radio signal even travel 1 light
 JS> year? ...Yet alone a thousand, or 10,000, or one million light years
 JS> that may be needed.
 
As long as the receiving equipment is sensitive enough, there is NO LIMIT
to how far a light - or radio - signal can be received!
 
 JS> I'll tell you a secret feeling of mine, Troy... Sometimes I lose my
 JS> optimism altogether! The grand design of the universe seems to keep
 JS> us separated from our sentient neighbors at just the distance required
 JS> to prevent communications.
 
Sorry, Jack, but our current technology _CAN_ communicate over
multi-light-year distances!  The only problem is how long it takes for
light, (or radio waves), to reach the destination.
 
 JS> So, now we have our UFOs... They must be from another world, because
 JS> we don't have anything like them, right?
 
Wrong, though IMO that's the more likely of several theories, especially
after talking personally to several contactees/abductees I have known.
 
 JS> Small wonder that skeptics dare ask, "OK, then how did they get here?"
 JS> "Um, er, well, you see, it's like this..."
 
Simple.  Their technology has discovered things that ours hasn't... yet.
 
 JS> The imagination of mankind needs no skimpy boundries like light speed
 JS> or worm-holes, or warp-9, or FTL to get from one place to another.
 JS> ...But even our own Captain Kirk had enough sense to confine his
 JS> travels to just our own Milky Way galaxy.
 
No worm-holes?  How about DS-9?   :-]
 
But then, one is always free to dream!   :-}
 
 JS> EARTH TO JACK! ...Ok, already! I'm baaack!
 
Sittin' right here waitin' for ya.   :->
 
Catch you later... Keep l00king up!
   Ivy
 
 
 
... CQ CQ - A sign of Amateur Radio - the world's finest hobby!
 
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