Seeing Orion's Doppler shift using modest equipment, compared to NASA's giants, demonstrates the high technical level our community has reached today. Thanks for sharing these technical details. It’s amazing to see the ham radio community contributing to the Artemis II mission. This is exactly the kind of positive news our hobby needs. Best of luck to Scott and the tracking team! 73 IU8PMU
This is Cool. One Local Ham AH6NM received some Telemetry. E Komo Mai Artemis 2 ! Wonderful mission by a well integrated and fun crew. Roll on Artemis 3,4 etc ! KH6/G3SEA
I dont know what kind of humor you are talking about? The movie "The Dish" is a real story about what happend with the Parkes-Radiotelescope by receiving the TV signal from the Moon. The scene with loosing the signal by an electrical blackout was a story just for the movie to make it thrilling. The problem with strong wind together with the dish was real. At all it wasnt only America there for the first walk on the Moon, it was Australia too to that time. And the region of Parkes in Australia is proud of their history concerning these historical moments. No jokes and the soundtrack of the movie is top notch.
PLEASE READ PLEASE read the other posts and their links. Your comment posits me in a deliberately negative light so I assume you are making a personal attack. That is not acceptable. One of our fellow hams posted the TRAILER for 'THE DISH' a few posts back. That trailer has deliberate and amusing 'dish humor'. The explicit example is the actors USING THE PARKES RADIO TELESCOPE to play CRICKET. ON the dish! That is intended and clear humor that is thus part of this thread. Hence my appropriate comment. I never heard of the movie. I know what the INCIDENT was about. Its part of the history of Parkes. I did NOT know there was a movie made about it. And no one has ever talked about playing cricket on the dish in radio astronomical circles. I have been a user of Parkes several times, with my Australian colleaugues present. There are indeed a cheery and friendly bunch who are dead serious scientists. The only eccentric person of radio astronomical circles in Oz was American Grote Reber. The Ozzies respected and loved him even for his oddities. He made his home there (Tasmania). He was W9GFZ. Eccentrics are few nowadays. Just because people are brilliant does not necessarily mean they are eccentric. And eccentrics don't wear white shirts and ties to work. They look frumpy and need haircuts and are allergic to combs. Chip W1YW
I'm using a computer program to try and locate Artemis, and keep getting the location as a studio in Hollywood? What could that mean?
COPPER KETTLE-- 1928 Palo Alto CA. Picture from P. Flehr, Inventor and their Inventions, 1990,p.50 Flehr was the inventor's patent attorney. The patent is: 1,831,011. 73 Chip W1YW
So now the "Astronauts are reporting strange blue and brown colors on the far side of the moon. Interesting that the Chinese "landed" there but failed to mention that.
OK another Big Idea. This mission is supposedly a precursor to a lunar base. A base. So what is the possibility of this base having ham radio installations? Finally. Justify it as a backup comms. Gear is so much smaller and lighter now that is it plausible? I know ARRL has a trophy for the first Mars QSO but how about the moon? ISS has it.
