Hi Tom,
I am glad that you all had a great time in Dallas!
Over here in the UK, at the Goonhilly Earth Station on the Lizard peninsular in Cornwall, we "borrowed" their 32 metre dish (GHY6) to do SSB moonbounce (aka Oscar-0) on 5.7GHz.
Here is a short extract of Noel G8GTZ, using his Special Event Callsign, GB6GHY, appearing in front of about 3000 attendees at the music and science festival which was taking place on site.
Moonrise did not occur until 2330 local time so the audience was quite loud themselves https://twitter.com/i/status/1152731492382138372
GHY6 was commissioned in the early 1980s and, now that we have "finished with it", they are implementing an upgrade and update to make it suitable for use with the DSN and the upcoming Lunar Gateway and Artemis missions. Exciting times ahead.
73
Graham
G3VZV
On 21/07/2019 23:40, Tom Schuessler, N5HYP via AMSAT-BB wrote:
I hope everyone who worked at special events commemorating Apollo 11's historic mission had a great time this weekend. Those involved with our event at the Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas had a great time introducing hundreds of people to some basic aspects of satellites, and specifically Amateur Radio in space.
Thanks to all who helped, Mac Cody, AE5PH (FM satellite passes), Jay Cox, KG5BZW, Virginia Smith, NV5F, Tim Staley, K5TGS, Doug Quagliana, KA2UPW and Dave Buchanan, W5TRX (with wife Leah) for giving their day to represent AMSAT. Thanks as well to the Dallas Amateur Radio Club (Our display neighbors) for their assistance.
Also thanks to Alan Johnston, KU2Y for his contribution in loaning the Fox Engineering model and Cubesat Simulator for this event. Both items are great eye catchers at venues like this.
73 Tom Schuessler, N5HYP EM12ms
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