Group: sci.energy
From: Benj
Date: Saturday, September 01, 2007 8:15 AM
Subject: Re: Millimetric-frequency-receivers for distant radio-astronomy?


Radium wrote:
> Sorry, I meant to ask whether 3,438 GHz is the highest radio frequency
> used to receive audio signals from outer space. I should have made my
> question more specific. Radio-astronomers study sounds from the sun as
> well as visual data.
>
> I wonder if a space station with a 3,438 GHz AM receiver could pick up
> any extremely-distant audio signals between 20 to 20,000 Hz [from
> magnetars, gamma-ray-bursts, supernovae and other high-energy but
> cosmic objects] after demodulating the 3,438 GHz AM carrier wave.

I'm wondering if waves of the frequency 3, 438 GHz were multiplied by
10 to the power 14 if that could be used for radio astronomy?

Sorry. "Radium Rays" affected my brain for a moment....