the world first successfull Earth-Venus-Earth amateur radio communication by AMSAT-DL from the 20m Radio telescope at the Bochum Observatory (Sternwarte Bochum).
We hope this material is useful for anyone who wants to repeat this. But "de minimis" is, you should try to replicate what we did and send "HI HI" to Venus and back.
EVE_2009 Folder containing details of Amsat-DL's 2009 EVE result.zip Round-up of the various key things g3ruh.zip Article contribution for Amsat-DL
EVE_2025 Folder containing prospects for 2025 V_2025.zip Provision planning files: Link.txt Link budget and other thoughts Venus.txt Summary, Venus passes at Bochum noise.txt Estimates of RX noise power at 2.45 GHz of stars etc EquatorV.txt Values of Venus apparent equatorial speed
There is also Wolfgang's fantastic report: https://www.qsl.net/dl4yhf/speclab/earth_venus_earth.htm
More at https://amsat-dl.org/en/earth-venus-earth-experiment-of-amsat-dl-successful/
Prepared 2025 Mar 18 [Tue] 2110 utc by JRM/G3RUH pro AMSAT-DL