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		amatecha on Dec 20, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ham radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1... I wonder about that too, was it just only transmitting an unmodulated carrier at the time (minus 22 hours lol)? Or is the signal quality too poor to discern any modulation? Or something else? >_>

thomas_tel on Dec 20, 2024 [–]

We only see the carrier because it has such narrow bandwidth, the modulated data is for us not distinguishable from the noise. FYI, at this data rate the carrier contains 25% of the transmitted power.

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