magic in the sky

I Need a Bigger Antenna!

JEFF REINHARDT

If you saw the 1997 movie, Contact, you might remember the plaint of the main character, Ellie Arroway (played by Jodie Foster) as she portrays a young ham radio operator seeking to feed her curiosity about the universe. The dramatic cut shows a grown young woman at the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico, the site of 28 receiving dishes, each weighing 230 tons and able to be tightly concentrated or spread across a distance of some 22 miles, depending on the area currently being studied. If you haven’t seen the movie, it’s worth the investment of time, as it explores a wide range of topics, beliefs, science and emotions tied to our understanding of the universe. You would expect no less from a film inspired…

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CQ Amateur Radio (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2023

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