Live from Mars

Paul Marsh, M0EYT, the radio ham who recently made headlines for detecting radio signals from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at a distance of 45 million miles from earth, will be speaking at an upcoming Institution of Electrical Engineers public lecture.

The free event will take place from 6.30pm on Thursday 2 March at the Allsebrook Lecture Theatre at Bournemouth University. Paul – a member of the Flight Refuelling Amateur Radio Society - will describe how he built and used a home-made receiver to pick up signals from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter transmitting in X-band.

He will also answer the question: As NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto gets underway, how long can amateurs keep pace with the space race?

For further details about the lecture, contact event organiser Richard Atkinson at e-mail:
richard.atkinson@<no spam>clickairport.com

Source: GB2RS News - Courtesy of the RSGB