From: krw on
On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:59:58 -0700, "JosephKK"<quiettechblue(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:37:50 -0500, "krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" <krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:48:17 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>>krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:48:02 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
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>>>> Um, after you "vaporize the water content", what are you proposing to reflect
>>>> the light off of? ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>>The moon? That's what ham radio folks do with EME transmission :-)
>>
>>I guess that works for half the day. The 1/r^2 is rather extreme, though.
>
>Yep. Hams use very sensitive receivers and very high gain antennas 35 dB and up.
>Though getting much past 44 dBi is rather difficult IIRC.

I guess for an optical link, Palomar would have a gain right up there. ;-)