From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhtsa!alice!alb
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Re: RE: Pioneer 10 Transmissions
Article-I.D.: alice.1781
Posted: Wed Apr 27 23:05:44 1983
Received: Thu Apr 28 06:38:36 1983
References: <1575@ihldt.UUCP>

At present, Pioneer emits an 8-watt signal.  By the time
it reaches the orbiting receiving stations, it has been
reduced to about twenty trillionths of a watt.  At that
point, it is still able to be read out of the background
wash.  Scientists expect to be able to 'hear' it until
it travels about 5 billion miles outside the solar system.