21 Jul
2009
21 Jul
'09
8:42 p.m.
I managed to dust off the Arrow antenna and my trusty little VX-3R (at the last minute I couldn't locate my TH-D7A, which I like a little better, but the VX-3R works) and aimed it at the sky. I had a bit of trouble with the manual tracking, but I recorded about 10 minutes, netting four different attempts at the SSTV image. I blogged it here:
http://brainwagon.org/2009/07/20/40th-anniversary-of-apollo-11-on-ao-51/
MP3 and images are available. Not the greatest, but not terrible either.
73 Mark K6HX