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I imagine that with cracking the protocol with 39 hours return time... it would be a challenge.

At a mammoth 16bps...

And then the 20kW+ transmitter you'd need...

I think Voyager data rate is 160bps (when I last saw it at https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html ).

It wouldn't surprise me if they've been reducing the data rate as the signal strength weakens.

Yep. But looks like Madrid is receiving data right now from VGR1 and the page says "159.00 b/sec".