[Elecraft] Used antenna - Arecio antenna collapses

[Bill Frantz]

There are some interesting tidbits about Arecibo:

Joe Taylor, K1JT, or wsjt-x fame, did some of the work that lead 
to his Nobel Prize at Arecibo. His also mounted an 'expedition' 
in April 2010 to use the Arecibo Radio Telescope to conduct 
moonbounce with Amateurs around the world using voice, Morse 
code, and digital communications. [Wikipedia]

The Arecibo radio telescope was used as a powerful radar to 
study other objects in the solar system. Things at certain 
distances could not be studied because by the time the 
transmitted signal reflected back, the Earth had turned enough 
that the radio telescope was pointed in the wrong direction.

It's definitely a sad occurence. I sympathize with the people 
who use black humor to handle their sadness.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 12/2/20 at 8:59 AM, weaverwf at usermail.com wrote:

>EME (Earth - Mars - Earth) ? :-)
>
>73,
>Bill WE5P
>
>Comfortably Numb

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