News Gil Gerard (1943-2025)

[Candleicious Ghost]

Our bubble of AM radio broadcasts is about 110 light years wide and expanding. Then you have shortwave, radar and the intense light from hundreds of nuclear detonations until the test ban after 1945. FM has about a 60 yr bubble.

If someone is paying attention, they know we're here.

Yeah but for the benefit of what I'm trying to write what distance should I park to get a clear signal of old Earth radio or TV

 

[Maurice]

Not to mention how little power it had and was a directional antenna. Of course Galactica wouldn't have picked it up so far away.

It was rebroadcast by TV networks all over the globe.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

It was rebroadcast by TV networks all over the globe.

Don't you mean all across the disk /s runs off

 

[FredH]

Without seeing actual scripts it's impossible to actually compare them.

Man, I wish I could read those scripts.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

It was rebroadcast by TV networks all over the globe.

I know...but the implication, for me anyway, was that it was the original broadcast...which I watched.

Yeah but for the benefit of what I'm trying to write what distance should I park to get a clear signal of old Earth radio or TV

Our broadcasts were pretty powerful, 50,000, 100,000 watts. Megawattage radar. But...we have the inverse square law in effect since the signal left the WKRP transmitter and then swept past your ship four years later. That's a lot of lost power.

Im not a ham or shortwave guy. Educated wild-assed guesses are my superpower

IF BG took place (Some believe there may yet be brothers of man... who even now fight to survive - somewhere beyond the heavens!) in 1978, then they're about ten light years away.

We now return to remembering GG? Sorry for the tangent.