[Bobalu]

I was once offered some 25 foot steel dish antennas if I would just dismantle them and cart them away.

They were old heavy ADM dishs, solid petals — very heavy!
With az-el drive motors and controllers.

Just didn’t have the energy :-(

Wish I had em here now to play at moon bounce...I’d run em full time whenever the moon was above the horizon...sending a morse beacon on 1296. Just 100 watts would give you a strong return signal.

[Bobalu]

Here's a 32ft 1296 moonbounce amateur rig...nice! The mesh dishs are far less heavy.

Here is a portable 16ft setup

Another nice setup by a ham who is also an amateur SETI guy

Believe it or not radio hams could maintain regular communications between Earth and Mars using such equipment :-)

[SunkenCiv]

That does sound like a great deal. :’)