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by jhallenworld 1841 days ago
The reverse problem is interesting. Consider Voyager 1- its high gain antenna is pointed essentially directly at the sun, a powerful wide-band noise source. How does it detect anything from earth? The DSN has to outshine the sun within the tiny S-band window that Voyager listens to: 20 kW and 62 dB antenna gain.

https://descanso.jpl.nasa.gov/DPSummary/Descanso4--Voyager_e...

https://ipnpr.jpl.nasa.gov/progress_report/42-175/175E.pdf