Some Anons have said Nellie Ohr could only have been able to communicate within a limited area based in her "amateur" ham radio operators license (100 miles).

But what if she was not broadcasting "outward" but rather "upward"? - toward the MOON, bouncing the signal off the Moon to be picked up by a FOREIGN POWER(a Five Eyes country with maybe a rather large antennae array) Maybe Oz?

Earth–Moon–Earth communication (EME), also known as moon bounce, is a radio communications technique that relies on the propagation of radio waves from an Earth-based transmitter directed via reflection from the surface of the Moon back to an Earth-based receiver.

Current EME communications

A single sideband contact between IZ1BPN in Italy and PI9CAM at the Dwingeloo Radio Observatory. IZ1BPN's transmission is shifted up in pitch slightly to compensate for PI9CAM's transmission being shifted down by the Doppler effect. At the end of IZ1BPN's transmission you can hear the echo of his signal returning from the Moon at a lower pitch due to the Doppler effect.

Amateur radio (ham) operators utilize EME for two-way communications. EME presents significant challenges to amateur operators interested in weak signal communication. EME provides the longest communications path any two stations on Earth can use.

Amateur frequency bands from 50 MHz to 47 GHz have been used successfully, but most EME communications are on the 2 meter, 70-centimeter, or 23-centimeter bands. Common modulation modes are continuous wave with Morse code, digital (JT65) and when the link budgets allow, voice.

Recent advances in digital signal processing have allowed EME contacts, admittedly with low data rate, to take place with powers in the order of 100 Watts and a single Yagi–Uda antenna.

World Moon Bounce Day, June 29, 2009, was created by Echoes of Apollo and celebrated worldwide as an event preceding the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. A highlight of the celebrations was an interview via the Moon with Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, who was also part of the backup crew for Apollo 11. The University of Tasmania in Australia with their 26-meter dish were able to bounce a data signal off the surface of the Moon which was received by a large dish in the Netherlands, Dwingeloo Radio Observatory. The data signal was successfully resolved back to data setting a world record for the lowest power data signal returned from the Moon with a transmit power of 3 milliwatts, about 1,000th of the power of a flashlight lamp.

Interestingly, the C_A was using "Moon Bounce" back in the Cold War to monitor the Soviet missile program's radio transmissions.

Search: C_A, Moon Bounce

>>5620273

More on the CIA Moon Bounce program to monitor the Soviets.

(basically it's a Clown operation from the start) Could they have recommended Nellie Ohr use this technique- it being an old tool in their bag?

Hen House Observation

During its last Soviet operations in 1960, the U-2 photographic collection system had noted a very large antenna structure near the Sary Shagan missile test range. We believed that it was the antenna of a new radar system, but since the location was deep within a denied area we were not able to detect signals from it. Its signals were first heard by Western observers in 1962, not via Moon Bounce but by reflection from the ionized cloud of a Soviet atomic test explosion. Since analysis of this brief, crude intercept showed that the Soviets had a new radar system of advanced capability, the intelligence community immediately attempted to intercept the signal by other means.

The first searching via Moon Bounce was done by the Navy using its 150-foot dish on the Chesapeake. The faint signal could not be found, however, until some specific information on its frequency reached us from other sources. Navy made the first successful intercept in January 1964 and in subsequent monitoring defined roughly the parameters for the Hen House frequency and scan.

Stanford's 150-foot dish at Palo Alto, because of its potential with respect to eastward-looking Soviet radars, was chosen for CIA's Moon Bounce collection project. Quite sophisticated collection equipment, including two unique receivers, was built especially for this purpose and installed there. In August 1965 the Palo Alto project made its first intercept of the Hen House radar, which remains its most important target.

CIA has undertaken a continuing analysis effort to define carefully the exact parameters of the Hen House system, using data from the Department of Defense intercepts and more recently from Palo Alto. Three major discoveries have been made about the signal. First, using special receiving equipment, it was determined that the signal has a "spread-spectrum" mode. This means that the spectrum (frequency spread) of the signal can be intentionally broadened to increase either the radar's range or its range-rate resolution, that is its accuracy in reading its target's speed.

The second discovery was that the Hen House uses a rather advanced scanning system. We expected to see a regular scanning, or "search" mode, and a tracking mode, where the beam follows a target. Both of these have been observed. In the latter, the Soviets, apparently just for practice, have set the radar to track the moon for as much as half an hour. This makes the intercept job much easier, as we then see the signal continuously rather than in short bursts as the beam swings by the moon. But in addition to the standard scanning and tracking modes we have observed the system in a combination mode wherein it is basically scanning but will dwell for a short time on any target it sees. Apparently it is set to look at a target just long enough to identify it and measure its parameters before moving on. We imagine the radar can keep track of several targets at once. Since the scan and dwell times are quite short, it must operate under computer control.

The most recent significant observation is that the transmitter's peak power is about 25 megawatts. This, if correct, makes it one of the highest-powered radars in the world.

All of these observations lead us to believe that the Hen House is a new, sophisticated ABM radar. Knowledge of Soviet ABM capability has become of increasingly critical importance to the United States. By accurately defining the parameters of the new radar, we can now start the design of countermeasures and tactics to reduce its effectiveness.

The Moon Bounce effort is one of those intelligence collection techniques which seemed at first "far out" but has in the event more than paid for itself.

>>5620452

Every Sunday night I say to myself, "5 more days".(til Friday night)

M-F WorkAnon here. But I am with you on the time thing. Weekends getting too short. Time to retire.