[NJARC] [ham-hist] 1946 Moon Bounce being repeated Jan 10

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Hi Jim,

Why ruin a good story with facts?

73, John

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From: "N2ey N2EY at aol.com [Ham-Radio-History]" <Ham-Radio-History at yahoogroups.com>
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Subject: RE: [ham-hist] 1946 Moon Bounce being repeated Jan 10

They didn't use a dish in 1946.

73 de Jim, N2EY


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Subject: [ham-hist] 1946 Moon Bounce being repeated Jan 10
From: "samhevener at yahoo.com [Ham-Radio-History]" <Ham-Radio-History at yahoogroups.com>
To: Ham-Radio-History at yahoogroups.com
CC: [ham-hist] 1946 Moon Bounce being repeated Jan 10

Seventy years ago, a team from the U.S. Army, operating at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey's "Project Diana" site, successfully copied radio signals that had been bounced from the moon using an Army tracking dish.
That site is now part of the InfoAge Science History Museum where, on January 10, the EME, or "earth-moon-earth" bounce, will be recreated, marking the date when the historic transmission both left its mark and its signal, in 1946.
In fact, the radio amateurs intend to use that same dish, which has long since been demilitarized and refurbished. The TLM-18 received those first historic signals during its time of active service on that site as a ground station for the TIROS 1 and 2 weather satellites and for Project Vanguard.
The commemorative transmission will occur on 23 centimeters from the station of the Ocean Monmouth Amateur Radio Club, N2MO, sent by members of that club as well as hams from Princeton University an d the science museum. The dish's primary role, as used by Daniel Marlow, K2QM, is to help observe radio pulsars as well as radiation from the Milky Way. Marlow teaches physics at Princeton University and serves on the board of InfoAge.
The TLM-18 is being made available for the amateurs' moonbounce on a secondary basis. Nevertheless, promising this group the moon - and then delivering - is going to be just as historic an event as it had been back in 1946.

(From Amateur Radio Newsline)