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To: Ali Chen who wrote (66480)	7/23/1999 6:47:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1575767

Ali, I suggested it to the SETI web site, but I was brushed off with the comment that it would not penetrate the ionosphere, to which I responded it would couple through in an analogous way to long wave penetrating the ocean(a far better conductor) since the peaks and nulls would be so far apart that the resistance of the ionosphere would in effect become a coupled conductor and re-radiate it. It will be hard to make such a yagi on the earth, but an orbital or lagrangian yagi would be workable and remotely doable. I am thinking of some kind of large rigid structure that is light in weight. Inflated mylar tubes, coated with gold in a strip with a small pressure from a subliming solid that will not leak through the mylar. Stiff enough to respond to slow steering torques without buckling, via ion motors at the ends?? Just a though...might get done one fine day. Bill