Yes, Arecibo message is not turning Arecibo Observatory into tower:communication
And there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_astronomy 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_astronomy> 

"Radar astronomy differs from radio astronomy in that the latter is a passive 
observation and 
the former an active one."
but it is also not a communication.

25. Oct 2018 12:04 by joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com 
<mailto:joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com>:


> Please don’t tag radio telescopes with tower:communication. Telescopes 
> observe, they do not communicate or send information.
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 6:53 PM Andrew Harvey <> andrew.harv...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:andrew.harv...@gmail.com>> > wrote:
>
>> What about
>>
>> man_made=tower
>> tower:type=communication
>> tower:construction=dish
>>
>> See for example >> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/199994565 
>> <https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/199994565>>>  it's even
>> rendered on the default OSM map.
>> On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 17:38, Joseph Eisenberg
>> <>> joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com <mailto:joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com>>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > I am working on rendering man_made=telescopes, starting with 
>> > telescope:type=radio. Next will be telescope:type=optical.
>> >
>> > I noticed that man_made=radio_telecope is listed as a possible tagging 
>> > mistake on the telescope wiki page. But there are still over 200 tagged 
>> > with this, versus 450 with telescope:type=radio. It is not on the 
>> > deprecated features page.
>> >
>> > Would it be acceptable to add man_made=radio_telescope to deprecated 
>> > features, and suggest use of the more common man_made=telescope & 
>> > telescope:type=radio tags?
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