Red Coast Transmitter

Item from The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin

The high-power microwave transmitter at Red Coast Base — the device with which Wenjie, in 1971, used the sun as an amplifier to broadcast humanity's first interstellar message.

Also known as: the Red Coast antenna, the dish

What They Know

• Capable of using the sun's microwave cavities as a natural amplifier, multiplying transmission power by roughly 100 million times
• Officially logged as an anti-satellite microwave weapon — its true purpose was secret even from most of its own engineers
• Used by Ye Wenjie in 1971 to send the first interstellar message from Earth

Connections

• located_in — red_coast_base

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