Moonbounce experiment 'Project Diana' commemorated

The Ocean Monmouth Amateur Radio Club in the US will put special event callsign N2MO on the air on 14 to 15 January next year to commemorate the first successful moonbounce experiment.

This was carried out by the US Army Signal Corps on
10 January 1946 in what was known as Project Diana.

The special event station will be activated from the historic Project Diana site at the InfoAge Learning Centre in New Jersey.

Ocean Monmouth ARC plans to operate the special event station using ALE, CW, PKS31, RTTY and SSB on the 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10m bands.

You can find out more about Project Diana on the web at www.omarc.org. Also refer to the article on Project Diana in the May 1946 edition of QST magazine.

Source: GB2RS News - Courtesy of the RSGB