ARLA/CLUSTER: Radioamadores americanos passam a ter acesso a radio-telescopio auxiliar de 18 metros

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Radio hams get access to 18m EME dish

The ARRL report that a huge tracking dish is to become available for
amateur radio EME operation on 432 MHz

They say:
The InfoAge Science History Museum in Wall Township, New Jersey, plans
to make a 60 foot tracking dish antenna available to hams for
moonbounce, secondary to its function as a radiotelescope.

It was on the InfoAge site, then part of Fort Monmouth, that the US
Army’s “Project Diana” team in 1946 first received radio signals
bounced from the moon.

According to InfoAge’s Martin Flynn, W2RWJ, Daniel Marlow, K2QM, an
InfoAge board member who teaches physics at Princeton, wants to use
the dish, currently under rehabilitation after being dormant since the
1970s, to pursue radio astronomy for instructional purposes.

Marlow’s primary goal is to restore the TLM-18 dish antenna to working
order and use it to see the 21 centimeter radiation from the Milky
Way. But he also wants to observe radio pulsars, and since that
activity can be performed at 70 centimeters, the TLM-18 will be made
available to the Amateur Radio community for EME at 432 MHz on a
secondary basis.

Read the full ARRL story at
http://www.arrl.org/news/huge-tracking-dish-to-become-available-for-eme

Vintage Newsreel of Project Diana Earth-Moon-Earth
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2013/
vintage_newsreel_of_project_diana_earth_moon_earth.htm