Stations located in JA and neighboring nations will be able to hear the lunar landing 40th anniversary special downlink, voice messages and robot 36 SSTV picture which are same as transmitting over North America and Europe.
Please watch AO-51 435.300MHz FM downlink passes over JA. Special downlink will transmitt 20th evning and 21st mornig in JA. QSL will issue from AMSAT-NA. QSL info is shown on the web site. http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/echo/CTNews.php
JA6PL and some othre stations support this event.
Thank you, Drew and the AO-51 operations group!
Masa JN1GKZ
If there is a station or two there with excellent L band uplink capabilities who would like to relay the audio for us, we can do it. Email the ao51-modes list and myself if you would like to volunteer. The same goes for JA or anywhere else.
73, Drew KO4MA
----- Original Message ----- From: "Roland Zurmely" [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 8:08 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] AO-51 Control Team News
"July 20 AMSAT-NA will mark the 40th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing with a special event on AO-51. AO-51 will transmit a message commemorating the event Monday, July 20 during evening passes in the U.S. and Europe. The message will be transmitted on the 435.300 MHz FM downlink and will contain a Robot 36 SSTV image as well as a voice message."
in the U.S. and Europe <<<
Why not in south america ?
We have a lot of stations that would like to hear the message and to receive the SSTV image !
73 de Roland PY4ZBZ