Jesse Alexander, WB2IFS/3So I streamed the movie COSMOS last night hoping to zone out from the hate on the media and I learned a few things about the #electromagnetic #spectrum that I didn’t intend to learn. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4477292/
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I learned about this part of the #radiospectrum called the #waterhole around 1400 MHz that could serve as an #interstellar communications band. I was sooo excited that I took a photo of the frequency from the movie and tried to find a #websdr with coverage in the band.
https://www.seti.net/indepth/waterhole/waterhole.php
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No #spoilers, but #CW makes a cameo at the end and there’s enough technically accurate #technobabble to make me believe that there were some #HamRadio operators involved in making the film.
#AmateurRadio
#SETI
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LOL I found the official COSMOS movie page
https://www.cosmosmovieofficial.com/
no references to #amateurradio or #hamradio 🤔
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Alexander Knochel@wb2ifs The Arecibo message was broadcast near there iirc?
@wb2ifs I take it back that was at 2.xxx GHz
@quantensalat 😂 they glossed over that frequency difference.
KI7CFO@wb2ifs sadly that is splattered with am radio for me.