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Hi Bill A ham, well known to us, actually me, was very involved in the very first laser reflector experiment.  I was a new EE gradu...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/science/moon-lasers-dust.html Thanks to Chuck KE5HPY for alerting us to this very interesting articl...

Well, we were talking about it on 40.   This just proves that there is more to 40 meter SSB than the never-ending quest for audio "br...

Alan mentioned this in his interview with Eric on the QSO Today podcast .  I really liked Alan's video of the Project Diana moonbounce...

A very cool interview indeed.  But how could it be otherwise?  With Eric on one end of the Skype connection and Alan on the other, coo...

David GM4JJJ was the fellow who sent us the video of early Scottish moonbounce ops.  This morning he sent me a tale of woe involving some tr...

Somehow this seems appropriate for Pi Day (3-14).  I guess it is because the antenna is circular. Thanks to David GM4JJJ for sending this...

Bill:   I'll attach some pix of the feedhorn and LNA for you. The importance of circular  feeds is that as a linear wave pas...

Years ago I bought a Barebones Superhet from Dale Parfitt on E-bay.  Several years after that, having forgotten who I bought it from, I ...

Hack-A-Day ran a story on EME pioneer Zoltan Bay.  In the comments section someone posted this memorable video about a moonbounce statio...

The link below will take you to an amazing collection of QST articles describing the early days of EME or "moonbounce."  Very i...

In March 1944, Bay recommended using the radar for scientific experimentation, including the detection of radar waves bounced off the Moo...

Rafael in Mexico sent me some very interesting info about World Moonbounce Day. Today! From: "MM" Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010...