@barrygoldman1 @canberradsn By my accounting, #DSS43 when uplinking with Voyager 2 puts out the second-most-intense radio beam now available.

The first-most-intense is the Goldstone solar system radar on #DSS13, but it is again on the wrong side of the planet.

(Subject to caveats about some military radars. The Arecibo Observatory had a more powerful transmitter, but it is now lost.)

@barrygoldman1 @canberradsn The 70-m DSN antennas at the Deep Space Network sites were designed specifically to communicate with Voyager 2 - they were originally smaller and were upgraded to their current size before the Neptune flyby in 1989.

A few years ago, #DSS43 was further updated with a new 400 kW transmitter to be able to keep sending commands to the spacecraft.

(#DSS13 in California has a similar-power transmitter, but can't see Voyager 2 anymore. And the frequency is different.)