Re: EME moonbounce?

[Daryl Shawn <darylshawn@gmail.com>]

I always wondered if one could send a signal through a tremendously long 
wire, long enough that it would take the sound an appreciable length of 
time to arrive, thus creating a delay with relatively little loss of 
fidelity (though I'm sure there'd be a loss of gain, which would need to 
be made up, thus adding some noise to the end signal). Possible? Should 
I look around for a five-mile spool of speaker wire and try it out?

I assume that the speed of the signal through the wire would not be 
limited to the speed of sound in open air, hence it would need to be 
quite a long length...

Daryl Shawn
www.swanwelder.com


> OK, this might be totally technically naiive but with a time delay of 
> around 2 seconds it IS possible to bounce radio signals offf the moon.
> Does anyone here know what sort of fidelity the resultant echo would 
> be ? - you can see where I'm going with this...