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Yeah, sorry. I was a bit vague with my original question. What B.E.M. is saying is pretty much what I was thinking, but wasn't sure if it was actually scientifically sound. Thanks for the help so far guys :).

Well, let's just assume that it was picked up by a satellite by accident, and that the satellite's exact location was known. Would you then be able to figure out where it was being aimed?

So you are saying that if you intercepted a directional signal coming from Earth and being beamed out into space, that it would be impossible with the technology of today or the future, to determine in which direction it was being beamed?

What if it was the other way around. Say you picked up a signal being sent into space by the Chinese. Could you figure out where it was going?

This is a question for a piece of fiction I am writing. If a some kind of transmission signal, say radio, microwave, or laser, was transmitted from a planet, could you detect where that signal was being directed to? Say, for example, you picked up a signal coming from another solar system...