Using the surface of Venus to send and receive a reflected signal is far more challenging than moonbounce could ever be. On the 17th of October, it happened: The Dwingeloo Radio Telescope in the Netherlands sent amateur radio microwave signals bearing the coded message "Venus Echo" toward Venus on 1299.5 MHz. Five minutes later, the reflections were reported as received by a number of radio telescopes, including the eMerlin, Astropeiler Stockert and Effelsberg, The message, modulated in a channel-specific waveform using M-FSK with forward error correction, was successfully decoded.
The first amateur radio Earth-Venus-Earth signal was completed in 2009 by AMSAT-Deutschland, followed by the Dwingeloo telescope's initial success in 2025. According to the Deep Space Exploration Society's groups.io list, more E V E attempts are scheduled during the next two weeks.
