That's the Russian radio-telescope that picked up what was thought to be a possible signal from an extraterrestrial civilization. This article from the SETI Institute has some interesting tech info on antennas and power levels. Definitely not QRP!
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Thanks Garry!
The loop value is somewhere between 130 and 160uH. I get that 160uH value
from Dave's loop antenna page. It was the loop from his # 19 crysta...
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Then the required power is 1020 watts, or 100 billion billion watts ?? Someone's building an amplifier...and its gone into self oscillation... in the star cluster
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