45 Million Miles from Earth

Regular readers may have seen this website's story 'Amateur station hears MRO at 45 million miles' http://www.southgatearc.org/news/december2005/mro_45million_miles.htm

You might now be interested to know that you can hear from the amateur in question, Paul Marsh, first hand at this free event presented by the Institute of Electrical Engineering:

45 Million Miles from Earth

In this, the first of the 2006 programme of IEE Lectures in Bournemouth, Radio Ham Paul Marsh describes how he built and used a home made receiver to sucessfully receive signals from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter transmitting in X-band at a staggering range of 45 million miles from Earth.

As NASA's New Horizons' mission to Pluto gets underway, for how long can amateurs keep pace with the space race?

Speaker: Paul Marsh, IBM and keen Radio Ham
Venue: Allsebrook Lecture Theatre, Bournemouth University
Date and Time: Tea/Coffee from 6:30pm.
Presentation from 7pm, Thursday 2nd March 2006

For further details, go to http://local.iee.org/dorset_swilts/seniors/events.html

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