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!
Unique broadcast from WA2XMN on 42.8 MHz on the 19th of June 2025
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While we are all familiar with the 88 to 108 MHz FM broadcast band today,
its origins can be traced back to 1936 with the very first experimental
station...
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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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