A Ham Radio Weekend for Talking to the Moon - NYTimes.com: "Only about 1,000 ham radio buffs worldwide have the equipment to bounce a signal off the moon.
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By ASHLEE VANCE
Published: June 26, 2009
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Dogs bay at it. Lovers swoon under it. And some people like to bounce their voices off it.
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Michael Cousins, an engineer at SRI International, a non-profit that operates the dish, center, in the control room, with Ham operators Lance Ginner, left, and Jim Klassen.
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A radio dish at Stanford is powerful enough to bounce signals off the moon, a tricky endeavor.
The first two are easy, but sending a voice signal 239,200 miles to the moon and back is not quite as simple.
On Saturday, amateur radio buffs or “hams,” as they call themselves, will hold a global bounce-fest, using as many giant parabolic antenna radio telescopes as they can borrow around the world"
Saturday, June 27, 2009
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