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Amateur Lightwave Tricks
HobbySpacer writes: "According to an ARRL article, some Hams are moving to really high frequencies with experiments using lasers & LEDs. The tests include cloudbouncing, moonbouncing, laser radar and an infrared laser on an
amateur satellite.
See the Lasercom Manual and this
paper for intros. Meanwhile, other amateurs are looking for alien lasers pointed our way."
Why would an intelligent alien culture transmit in a low-density solution like light? That's so low bandwidth (in my opinion). If I was an interstellar commuter (alien), I'd transmit information in the form of directed gravity waves. It travels at the speed of light (perhaps faster), and has IMMENSE data storage due to the quark-size waveform. Why mess with LOS light when gravity is Line-Through-Everything?
;)
Other than that, amateur light proects are cool
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Throughout the day (and night) we will be taking down as many amateur radio websites as we can find. Afterwards there will be a BBQ on the lawn.
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