The Southgate Amateur Radio Club - the amateur radio site for all radio hams
Google
  Web southgatearc.org   
www.southgatearc.org





   

Special events stations commemorate Apollo 11 40th anniversary

If you were fortunate to work the Amateur Radio special events stations that commemorated the 40th anniversay of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon, here is a summary of the QSL information:

VE3MOON. From the Canada Museum of Science and Technology.
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing, the special event callsign VE3MOON will be operating from 14-27 July. The museum team plans to operate via AO-51, SO-50, VO-52, FO-29, and the ISS.
QSL via Darin, VE3OIJ.

AO-51's 40th Anniversary Special Message
AMSAT-NA marked the 40th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing with a special event on AO-51.
AO-51 transmited a special message commemorating the event on Monday, July 20. A special AO-51 SWL QSL is available to ground stations who copy the downlink.

Send QSL requests marked "Apollo 11" with SASE to the AMSAT office at 850 Sligo Ave. Suite 600, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

Mark, K6HX posted recordings and SSTV images received during this event on his web page at http://tinyurl.com/kn9bgm.
Ed, KL7UW has his recording at http://www.kl7uw.com/40th_apollo_message.wav.

Special Event Station K5E
The special call sign K5E was active on the satellites until July 24. If you worked K5E you can claim a special QSL card donated by WA3MVQ. QSL via Tim, N3TL with a standard size SASE.

EE Times prepared a July 20th special edition that tells the Lunar Landing story from the viewpoint of a number of engineers.

It can be found on-line at: http://tinyurl.com/ npklma.
Page 44 features comments by AMSAT member Steve Bible, N7HPR.

 

Source: Amsat, VE3MOON, AO-51 Operations Team, K5E, and Tom K3IO

 

AddThis Social Bookmark Button

 

 
QRZ Callsign Search
Latest news stories..

News Front Page
Get our news headlines for your website
Submit your news story

Get the News Headlines delivered by email
Enter your email address:
Delivered by FeedBurner

 

 
Home   Send this page to a friend   News
Index