Hi Jan, PE4WJ
I can confirm that Jan PA0SSB received the ALSEP packages. Jan is a good friend of mine and we used to contact off the moon 432 MHz EME from 1977 to 1980
PA0SSB was using the homebrewed 6 meters dish described and depicted in "The Moonbounce Group Part-2 " edited by EIMAC under cat. Nr AS49-14
The last time I was in touch with PA0SSB was on AO40 and if you contact him please relay to Jan my best remembers and 73"
Tank you so much
73" de
i8CVS Domenico
----- Original Message ----- From: "W.J. Ubbels" w.j.ubbels@lr.tudelft.nl To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 11:09 AM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments.
Hi John,
I know of at least one Dutch radio amateur, Jan Ottens PA0SSB who used his EME dish (one of the first in PA land to do EME back in those days) to receive the ALSEP packages. He still keeps audio tapes of these which I listened to a while ago... quite a thrill. He also used the dish to listen to the command module S-band transmissions, but he could only hear the subcarrier which they used, not enough gain / low NF to demodulate, but from the modulation you could clearly tell that an astronaut was talking. And, you could clearly distinguish the Doppler shift and hear the carrier drop out suddenly when it would go on the "flipside" of the moon. Makes me wish I was born a little earlier hi:) If you like, I can give you his contact details off-list.
73
Wouter Jan PE4WJ
-- W.J. Ubbels MSc. Delfi-C3 project manager electronic systems and communications Faculty of Aerospace Engineering Delft University of Technology room 8.19 Kluyverweg 1 2629 HS Delft +31 (0)15-2784615 w.j.ubbels@delfic3.nl w.j.ubbels@lr.tudelft.nl www.delfic3.nl PE4WJ
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