It’s the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest in amateur radio. It’s possible, but only barely possible.
Nobel Prize winner and retired Princeton physics professor Joseph H. Taylor Jr. commenting in today's New York Times on the ability for amateur radio ham operators to bounce a signal off the moon.
Giant parabolic antenna radio telescopes have been assembled worldwide to facilitate a global moonbounce today in honor the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20.
You can listen in here »
I think. (I haven't been able to hear anything yet.)
@robertbrand seems to know something about all this -- but he's not tweeting all that much. You can, however, hear him in a fragment from a recent radio show on many things, including the moonbounce »
Updates (including a live webcam) are promised at echoesofapollo.com »
