[v7arcssbnet] V7ARC - news about ham radio activities by Deep Space Exploration Society

[Steve Schaarschmidt]

Dear Friends,

At our breakfast meeting this morning, we talked about DSES operating
moonbounce on 1.2 GHz TONIGHT!

Gary WA2JQZ reported to me overnight that Jim WB0GMR was with them last
night and made some digital contacts! They made 34 contacts in all.

Here's Gary's bulletin that I couldn't get out to you this morning:

I won't be able to make this coming meeting.  As I was doing last month,
I'm participating with DSES for the ARRL EME Moon bounce contest at our
antenna site in Haswell [ Colorado ].  Because the Moon rises at around
sunset for these particular weekends, our operations are essentially
all-nighters.  Local hams can come visit and try out EME with us
(coordinating with us first   information at dses.science   ).
But it is a 3-hour drive to get there, and the outside temperature will
drop to the teens.  It is possible in the future we may try to do other EME
events, not tied to contests, and during daylight hours in which getting to
and from our site would be easier.  But that is not planned yet for any
time in the near future.



I wrote about our November EME adventures on our website:

dses.science/eme-earth-moon-earth-moon-bounce-communicating-on-the-weekend-of-november-20-21-2021


I sent information about our past and upcoming EME operation to the 432 MHz
& Above EME newsletter based in New Jersey.  Our information should come
out in the December issue, which should come out before this weekend's EME
contest.

www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/em70cm.html


 We are also giving thought to giving support to the ham club at the Japan
Space Agency.  They are planning to fly a cubesat-type vehicle on the
upcoming US Artemis-Orion unmanned test flight around the Moon early next
year.  Their cubesat would fly piggyback on the SLS launch vehicle.  The
Japanese vehicle has an orbiter portion, and a lander portion that will
crash land on the Moon. The lander is designed to try to survive the impact
landing, and then transmit UHF signals back to Earth.  The Japanese group
is looking for help to listen for its signal when the Moon isn't visible
from Japan (when the Moon is facing other parts of the Earth).

arrl.org/news/world-s-smallest-moon-lander-from-japan-will-put-ham-radio-transmitter-on-the-moon



 [ excerpted, with permission, from Gary’s email to Steve K0CI dated
12/15/2021 ]


[ Steve’s comment: These hams have some really cool stuff going on!
Please see:   dses.science   ]