Arecibo Dish active for World Moon Bounce Day

Echoes of Apollo EME 2010 or World Moon Bounce Day, is scheduled for the weekend of April 16, 17, and 18.

This year, EOA has been given a special opportunity to use the Arecibo Dish in Puerto Rico as the ultimate 'big gun' station on 432 MHz SSB & CW. EME operation on 1296 MHz may also be possible.

Arecibo has more than 50 dbi gain on 432 MHz so the team thinks it can be heard with modest equipment. Listeners with a unique opportunity to utilize modest UHF and 1296 stations to copy EME signals.

A large OSCAR-class antenna array equipped station may be able to participate.

Source: ARNewsline, Echoes of Apollo