On Mon, 16 May 2005 02:01:18 +0000, Doug Smith W9WI wrote:

When you transmit a shortwave signal from an earth-bound transmitter, it
gets "bounced" off the ionosphere to come back down to the listener a
few thousand miles away.

If you were to transmit such a signal from space, it would bounce in
pretty much the same way -- except that instead of bouncing down to a
listener on Earth, it would bounce back out into space. Not
particularly useful.

Nonsense (at least above the MUF). Consider QSOs made using Mode K (21
MHz uplink, 29 MHz downlink) of the RS-10/11 and RS-12/13 ham satellites.

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RS-12 RADIO SPORT RS-12
Catalog number: 21089
Launched: February 5, 1991

Uplink: 21.210 to 21.250 MHz CW/USB Downlink: 29.410 to 29.450 MHz
CW/USB Beacon: 29.408 MHz
Robot: 29.454 MHz
[05232004]
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